On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:47:11 +0300 (EEST), Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st> wrote: > > > To add more to the explanation - currently, the info about which AVStream > > > belongs to which variant stream actually is available, it's stored in > > > AVStream->id, where the int value says which variant it is a part of - all > > > AVStreams with identical id belong together. But someone from XBMC asked > > > me yesterday to provide the variant's total bitrate, too, which is useful > > > for making better decisions on switching variants. > > > > At this point, do we know the bitrates of the individual streams? We > > could simply put that in AVStream->codec->bit_rate and let callers add > > it up... > > Only if the chained mpegts demuxer sets it, and it appears it doesn't. > Also, within the applehttp metadata, there is an explicit bitrate field > saying what the nominal bitrate of that variant is, we should pass it > through somewhere at least. > > So, would a "variant_bitrate" metadata key be acceptable? Anton?
Sure, if you document it in some public place. btw I wonder if we should add numeric (and possibly other) metadata types. -- Anton Khirnov _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list libav-devel@libav.org https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
