With all this talk about bitrates, it's finally spurred me to ask
a question that's been floating around my head for a few weeks.
And that question is: is there a tool that will display the current
bitrate of an mpeg-2 file as it plays? A couple years ago, I recall
seeing a stand-alone Sony that had an option to show the bitrate,
and I'm somewhat surprised that I having found any of the Linux
movie playing tools that do the same. So I guess I should really
be asking this question on the Xine, Ogle, Mplayer, etc. lists,
but I thought I'd have a better chance at an answer from the
group that worries a little more about creating files with good
bitrates.
I tried the dvdview tool which I just learned about on this list
a couple days ago, but I found no option in the list of commands.
And, I couldn't get some of the more interesting features to
work (such as motion vectors and color vectors -- but maybe
mpeg2enc doesn't produce the type of file that makes use of
these features, I don't know, and this tangent is probably
something I should email the author of dvdview).
I'll probably also ask on the Xine forum, but if there's already
a tool that will do this, maybe not.
Thanks,
Bill
--
Bill Sherman
VR Impresario & co-author of "Understanding Virtual Reality"
NCSA Virtual Environments Group
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