Software to check bitrates on Xvid/Divx?

[KuroNeko]

I'm looking for a software that allows me to see the bitrate of a Xvid/DIVX file while it plays, or displays a graph showing the bitrate at a particular time in the file.

Gspot only shows me the average bitrates but I've noticed some of my files jump to 7Mbit/s when Gpsot says the average is 1.2Mbit/s. Quite a difference.

Which software would do this?

Thx
Neko

[MaxT]

Hmm... couldn't find any after googling for +10mins... weird... I know there's Bitrate Viewer available, but it's only for MPEG1/2 streams :/

[KuroNeko]

Yup, I have bitrate viewer, it's something like this I need.

Or even simpler, something that displays the bitrate while playing back.

Now I have to cut out a part of the movie which I want to analyse and save it as a seperate file, then Gspot it. Not practical at all to analyse a single file let alone an entire bacth of them.

Neko

[iradic]

well if you have avi's you can check for "DRFAnalyser", it shows quants and frame size (scans wholw file before - it's fast)

also if you are encoding in one pass can you use "full qual 1st pass" and don't "discard first pass" file... then use ".pass" file to see bitrate in bitrate viewer? don't know if this is legal...

bye

[KuroNeko]

Thanks, I'll check on DRFAnalyser, see if it helps

edit: nope, sorry, this isn't what I need. It doesn offer values on a particular point of the avi, as well as not presenting data in bits/s values, which makes it very difficult to draw any conclusions.

Would it be possible this kind of software - a bitrate viewer for Xvid/Divx or MPEG4 in general - does not exist?

Neko

[cypher_soundz]

You can use FFDSHOW and select OSD mode to display a bunch of information like Quant etc.
Regards
cyph

[KuroNeko]

Sounds good, but when I try it media player crashes (I use the old MS mediaplayer 6.4)

Any suggestions with which mediaplyer (freeware please) this feature works? Thx!

Neko

[niamh]

ffdshow shows input bitrate indeed

wmp 6.4 shouldn't crash, it doesnt here anyway :)

[KuroNeko]

Well, here it does and all I do is switch On OSD with bitrate. As soon as I switch it OFF again, problem solved. :confused:

Does this OSD uses some functions not supported on my old PIII machine, with Win2000 SP4?

Neko

[KuroNeko]

OK, fixed. Uninstalled, reinstalled FFdshow. Whatever was broken is now fixed. Works perfectly, just what the doctor ordered.

Thanks all!!

Neko

[cypher_soundz]

if you go get Media Player Classic (http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm) it may work? crashing in general is bad ;) :D . What version of FFDSHOW do you have?
heres a new one (2005) http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/ffdshow.cfm
Regards
cyph

[KuroNeko]

Umm... rats! Does seem to have a few glitches.

I played an avi that has a very low bitrate at start (600kb/s)- which is accurate. I move the slider to center of the movie: 2000kb/s. Next I place it back on the start, and it stays around 2000kb/s, dropping very slowly.

Is this the normal behaviour? Can it be made to give the accurate bitrate per second instead of this?

edit: I should clarify this a bit I think. It seems it does not rise and especially not drop fast enough. Even when playing a 30 second bit from a movie that has 7Mb/s bitrate, the display of FFdshow does not go over 3800kb/s, simply because it does not rise fast enough. It seems to take too large timesamples instead of each second or less.

Neko