[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffmpeg.c: allow ffmpeg to output stats for each video stream

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Wang Cao wrote:
> >
> > I believe users will expect that "size" shows the file size, especially
> > since this was done for more than a decade.
> 
> If this is the convention, I believe it should be kept as it was. On the
> other hand, I believe
> "bitrate" should be calculated through stream size not the file size.

if theres a file with 5 video streams it doesnt make sense to summarize
teh file with the bitrate of 1 stream

Also the user has no indication of this change, the number is just different
theres nothing informing him that it is no longer the files bitrate

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