[Libav-user] How to tell if a mp3 file was encoded with VBR?

[Hendrik Schreiber]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Hendrik Schreiber wrote:

> On Jun 5, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Andrey Utkin wrote:
>> What about demuxing file to AVPackets, and then analyzing sum of their
>> sizes within sliding timestamp window?
> 
> I was hoping for something easier :-)
> Also, not having to scan through the entire file, would be preferable.

Does that mean, there is no other way, but to actually scan through the file/stream?

-hendrik