[FFmpeg-user] Can ffmpeg calculate the min and max bitrate of a video?

[Peter van den Houten]

On 05/05/2022 02:37, smu johnson wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 1:31 AM Peter van den Houten <petervdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> FFmpeg will not always report bitrate, depending on the container format.
>> Mediainfo is available for Windows and will scan an entire file and you
>> might be able to change the switches for min & max bitrate.
>>
>> mediainfo --Parsespeed=1 filename
>
> I tried this from the command and couldn't get it to work.  It considers
> the argument a filename.
>
> C:\Program Files\MediaInfo>mediainfo --Parsespeed=1
> \tmp\encoding\jellyfish-30-mbps-hd-hevc.mkv
>
> Oh well.  Thanks for the reply anyways.  I wrote to MediaInfo support
> suggesting a feature request to possibly do this.
>
You need to download the Windows CLI version of MediaInfo.