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.

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

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)
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 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 B 100% Size of cached data and % of cache utilized
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