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

[Joel Lopez]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-11-16 19:50 GMT+01:00 Joel Lopez <badassmexican at gmail.com>:
>> 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)
>
>> 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.
>
> Forgive me for being unclear:
> It is so difficult that I don't know how to do it and I don't know where
> to look (but I do know that if you were able to do it you wouldn't have
> to ask).
>
> (This is not about finding the biggest frame in a stream afaik, this
> would of course be trivial.)
>
> Carl Eugen
>
> PS: This may be part of H.222 but as said, I don't know for sure.
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Ok, Thanks Carl.