Archive:Codecinfo

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Whilst XBMC is playing media on screen you can activate the codecinfo overlay (O key). This normally appears as white text on a black background bar located near the top of the screen (dependent on the skin being used).The codecinfo overlay displays a number of real time variables describing detailed information on the codecs currently in use.

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Frodo

Gotham ?

In Frodo in fullscreen video playback, the codec information is split into 4 lines of text. In Gotham it splits into 6 lines.

• Audio information - provided by both the 'D'emuxer and the 'P'layer
• Video information - provided by both the 'D'emuxer and the 'P'layer
• General playback information (C)
• 'W'indowing and System CPU information
• 'S'ystem performance information

Samples from the screen above:

Audio information	Breakdown
aac	Audio codec
mp4a / 0x6134706D	?
48000 Hz	Sample rate
5.1	Audio channels
s16	Sample size (s16 = signed 16-bit value)
fltp (Gotham)	float, planar
437 kb/s	Average audio bitrate (reported by demuxer)
aq:99%	Audio queue saturation
Kb/s:437.41	Current audio bitrate (reported by player)
att:0.0db	Attenuation / gain added by player

Video information	Breakdown
h264 (Main)	Video codec (profile)
avc1 / 0x31637661	?
yuv420p	Pixel format / color space
1920x1080	Resolution
9282 kb/s	Average audio bitrate (reported by demuxer)
fr:24.000	Framerate of source
vq:88%	Video queue saturation
dc:ff-h264-dxva2	Video library performing decode (in this case, ffmpeg/h264) ?
Mb/s:7.79	Current video bitrate (reported by player)
drop:12	Number of dropped frames
pc:1	Pullup correction pattern length

General playback information	Breakdown
ad:0.000	Audio delay (configured)
a/v:0.030	Audio/video sync difference (real time)
edl:-	Edit decision list
dcpu: 0%	Relative CPU Usage of the player thread
acpu: 0%	Relative CPU usage of the audio decode thread
vcpu:0%	Relative CPU Usage of the video decode thread
cache:0 B 100%	Size of cached data and % of cache utilized

Windowing information	Breakdown
fps:24.00	Video Framerate
CPU 4 core(s)	System processor information (this display is OS-dependent)
average: 4.7%	Average CPU load across all cores

System performance information	Breakdown
refresh	Actual framerate being displayed
missed	?
speed	?
sync	?
avg	?
error	?