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Whilst XBMC is playing media on screen you can activate the codecinfo pop-up/overlay. 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 popup displays a number of real time variables describing detailed information on the codecs currently in use.
For fullscreen video playback, the codec information is split into 4 lines of text.
- 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
- 'W'indowing and System CPU information
Samples from the screen above
| Audio Information | Explanation |
|---|---|
| aac | Audio Codec |
| mp4a / 0x6134706D | ? |
| 48000 Hz | Sample Rate |
| 5.1 | Audio Channels |
| s16 | Sample Size (s16 = Signed 16-bit value) |
| 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 | Explanation |
|---|---|
| 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 perfoming 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 | Explanation |
|---|---|
| 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 | Size of Cached Data and % of Cache Utilized |
| B | ? |
| 100% | ? |
| Windowing/System Performance Information | Explanation |
|---|---|
| fps:24.00 | Framerate being Displayed |
| CPU 4 core(s) | System Processor Information (this display is OS-dependent) |
| average: 4.7% | Average CPU Load across all Cores |