Questions tagged [bitrate]
Bitrate refers to the amount of information transferred or processed per unit of time, usually expressed in bits per second (bit/s) or multiples thereof. Bitrate can be used to express a number of things, such as the bandwidth of a computer interface, the level of quality of a digital audio or video stream, or the speed of file transfers.
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Does total network traffic being higher than the bit rate of a device's ethernet controller affect the controller?
I am using a Wago 750 ethernet controller on a local network that is at its peak hitting ~38,000,000 bits / second as per Wireshark. The Wago is becoming semi-unresponsive around the time of this ...
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Does this video bitrate calculation make sense?
For the purpose of this question, I downloaded the video at:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ypkZjqm
It downloaded as "3Uyndrm.mp4", 4,762 kB
In Windows 11, I used File Explorer > Details to ...
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Specifying audio bitrate of MP3 does not work as expected
I converted bitrate of audio file using ffmpeg which I built by myself.
But option -b:a 32k will create actually 96kbps file.
Are there any precautions when building?
I built ffmpeg with the next ...
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FFMPEG DTS Max Bitrate
Recently having problems with the DTS part of FFMPEG.
When defining a bitrate higher than 1536kb/s, the end result reverts to 640kb/s.
Using 1536kb/s or lower seems to have no problems.
Is this normal ...
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10G Fiber internet in, 15 Cat6a ports out -- do I need a 10G 16 port switch?
I have 10G fiber internet through Sonic as an ISP coming into my home. I recently wired the home and garage to have 15 CAT6a lines going to a central location where my fiber ONT is wired. I already ...
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Need to find the bitrate of video stream but ffprobe exits earlier with error unsupported codec before reaching to video stream
We are seeing an issue while finding the HLS videostream bit rate with ffprobe.
The stream has some timed metadata and when we run ffprobe with HLS input, error occurs: Unsupported codec with id 98313 ...
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Trying to set bitrate of HLS Format segments in ffmpeg
I've tried to set bitrate when converting mp4 into HLS Format in FFMPEG but it doesn't seem to work.
ffmpeg -y -i myvideo.mp4 -codec copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -map 0 -f segment -hls_segment_size ...
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Converting several files in a folder with ffmpeg rather than just one at a time
My MP3 collection is by default saved at a bit-rate of 32k. I like to shrink them down as far as I can before loading on to my “daily driver” MP3-Player.
I found and tweaked what is below with ...
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Why does the video file (x264) made with ffmpeg have a much higher bitrate compared to when I reencode it using the same settings in Handbrake?
I'm a ffmpeg beginner and am converting a series of .png images taken every 10s into a timelapse video. The images are named pic1.png, pic2.png, etc.
For this I'm using the following ffmpeg command:
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Why is ffprobe showing N/A for bitrate?
I am transcoding a video from VP9/opus webm to H.264/aac mp4. I'd like to maintain bitrate or reduce bitrate if either the audio bitrate > 128k or the file becomes larger than 5MB.
So I try to ...
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FFMPEG - Display per frame information for an AV1 encoded video
So I am trying to view per frame information for an AV1 encoded video using ffplay with the following command:
ffprobe -show_entries frame=pict_type,pkt_size,pkt_pts_time -select_streams v -of csv=p=0 ...
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Bitrate over Codec for the best quality?
AFAIK bitrate means how many bits are used to record the audio/video within one second, while codec (or file format) means the compression method to store the clip.
To me, the higher the bitrate, the ...
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FFMpeg: convert any file (video/audio) to custom bitrate and dynamic range
So, in my specific case, I have a couple of FLAC files that are approximately 1500kb/s, and they are 24-bit. I want to convert them to 16-bit, and to make them around 500kb/s
I didn't find any info ...
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Cannot change default audio format (Windows 11)
Microsoft Surface Book 3, 13.5″, Windows 11 Pro. The default sound output device won’t let me change the sample rate and bit depth. The corresponding Control Panel menu is grayed out with 16 bit, ...
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Windows 10 Groove music default app can't show songs bitrate?
I opened some mp3s on Windows 10 and Groove Music is launched as default app to reproduce them... Well, I was looking to have songs bitrate shown in current playlist (together with song title, ...
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