[FFmpeg-user] Getting peak bit rate info for HLS .m3u8 master playlist

[Joel Lopez]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-11-16 19:29 GMT+01:00 Joel Lopez <badassmexican at gmail.com>:
>
>> Is it possible to get the peak bit rate of a video using ffmpeg?
>
> I don't know of any open-source software that supports this.
> (It is apparently non-trivial iiuc)
>
> Carl Eugen
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Forgive me because I'm new to this.  Any clues on what I should be
looking at?  Do/How I look at the frames?  Where do I look to get this
non-trivial info?  I can script it out once I know where to look.