[Libav-user] Getting access to encoder's internal state

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/7/18, Vasiliy Volkov <volk.vasiliy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any method to get encoder's current state? Precisely, I'm talking
> about libx264 and I mean rate-control buffer fullness, vbv-delay, etc? I've
> found this structure:
> https://www.ffmpeg.org/doxygen/4.0/structAVCPBProperties.html
> but I can't see that any codec fills them. There are some filelds in codec
> context also, but the marked as deprecated.
>
> So what's the right method to access encoder's internal state?

Name says it all, internal stuff is not available from outside.