[FFmpeg-user] [FFmpeg-devel] vstats info options

[Kamaldeep Tumkur]

Hello,

It appears that the progress information is more valid for 'seek'able
media. But for live capture/encode, the frame_size and bitrate values
are not valid. If there was access to the AVPacket structure or frame
data at the time of sending the progress, we may have had reliable
size and bitrate stats.

Also lines 1560-1562 (ffmpeg.c v3.1.1)

    total_size = avio_size(oc->pb);
    if (total_size <= 0) // FIXME improve avio_size() so it works with
non seekable output too
         total_size = avio_tell(oc->pb);

Is there another possiblility here? Could you shed some light on why
the size is calculated based on seek lengths.

Thanks
Kamal

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Kamaldeep Tumkur
<kamaldeep.tumkur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion on the use of progress. This is definitely
> a user question. Though some further questions are:
>
> frame=4866
> fps=24.1
> stream_0_0_q=32.0
> bitrate=N/A
> total_size=N/A
> out_time_ms=202688000
> out_time=00:03:22.688000
> dup_frames=0
> drop_frames=0
> speed=   1x
> progress=continue
>
>
> There is no valid bitrate information. vstats always returns a valid
> bitrate-per-frame and an avg-bitrate-per-sec value. Is there a way to
> get the current bitrate consistently?
>
> Are the assessments in the following ticket accurate?
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5288
>
> Going to look at having my application reliably use progress data.
>
> Thanks
> Kamal
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Marton Balint wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Kamaldeep Tumkur wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a possibility to provide the option to write vstats info from
>>>> an encoding session remotely, say to another DB or to memory from
>>>> where it can be handled by another process.
>>>>
>>>> The only possibility for consuming vstats info in real-time seems to
>>>> be to have some kind of watch+notifier that will act upon
>>>> modifications to the vstats log file. I want to be able to use these
>>>> stats from a live encoding session for other purposes. Please suggest.
>>>> Would you accept patches to ffmpeg.c so that it would provide more
>>>> options to export the vstats info? Thanks for the time.
>>>
>>>
>>> Have you checked the -progress <url> option?
>>>
>>
>> Also please respond on ffmpeg-user mailing list, as this question clearly
>> belongs there.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marton
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