[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpeg print_report for rtmp streams

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:16:51PM +0000, Tom Marecek wrote:
> Hello, I have no experience with submitting patches to ffmpeg yet and so I am sorry if I am going about this the wrong way but I wanted to discuss a change that I made to print_report which is related to this bug:  https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/1446

1446 is about bitrate being 0, can you reproduce that ?


> 
> We are using stdout from ffmpeg to monitor rtmp streams. Currently the FPS and bitrate numbers which print_report outputs are calculated as a running average - the total number of frames divided by the elapsed time and the total size in bits divided by elapsed time.
> 
> This might make sense for files but for live streams it is not very useful since over time the changes in the streams are reflected less and less.
> My change is to output the actual frame rate and bit rate each time print_report is called (every half a second or so). Also instead of using the file size to calculate the bit rate, I use the sum of the data sizes written to each stream which is giving me more consistent numbers..
> 
> Here is the diff, thank you for your feedback..

iam not sure what is the best solution but changing print_report
for your use case seems wrong

if you want to know the packet sizes and timestamps through moitoring
ffmpeg throug stdout, see check_keyboard_interaction()
there are features like packet hexdumps in there. An addition there
somewhere would be cleaner
or maybe you could add a bitstream filter that exports such packet
statistics by some means

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