[MPlayer-users] Re: Automating recording of VHS cassette

[Levente Novák]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 01:04 +0000, John Brown wrote:
> RC writes:
> > No, but if it's a solid color, the bitrate (listed in the status line)
> > will probably drop down to almost nothing.  You could use that to script
> > something.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it seems that the status line shows 
> the *average* bitrate, not the current bitrate. When I stopped playing, the 
> bitrate started to dwindle very slowly from the 5000 where I set it, losing 
> about 1 kilobit per second, maybe less. It would have taken forever to reach 
> the < 200 kbps that the blue screen requires, even though I only recorded 
> approximately 5 minutes. 
> 

While it is nice to see the average bitrate of and encode, it would be
great if additionnally the current bitrate would also be displayed. This
information is present in e.g. ffmpeg, which allows me to generate the
bitrate histogram of an encode by capturing the stdout into a file.

Levente