Video bitrate always "unknown" or "N/A"

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: totem

When I see the properties of a video file, the bitrate is always "Unknown" or "N/A".
This happens with all formats I have, such as H264, DivX MPEG-4 Version 5, XVID MPEG-4.

I've never seen a video bitrate different than "Unknown" or "N/A".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 09:56:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: totem 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I just tried on an ogg video and it's correctly displayed there

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

working fine here as well, that's probably coming from the codecs you're using there. any chance to attach an example to the report or give an url with an example? thanks.

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

This is a test file in divx, created with the first 512Kb of a video file.
Would you also like a h264 file?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Ok i managed to reproduce the bug with the file you attached and found the upstream bug too: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563297 ; Thanks for reporting Nicolo.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The recently released gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.18 may help you. The release notes contain the following:

Bugs fixed in this release.
* 599300 : [qtdemux] Doesn't populate video bitrate field

The upstream bug is at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599300

This version is available by default in Lucid 10.04 and in the Karmic 9.10 PPA at https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Lucid currently has gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.21-1ubuntu2. The properties of the file in comment 4 still do not show the video bitrate.

The release notes for GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.22 contain the following:

Bugs fixed in this release
* 614927 : qtdemux: Post avg/max bitrate tags for H.264

The upstream bug is at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614927

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Not fixed in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" beta, updated to:

totem 2.31.90-0ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.11-1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.30-2
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.25-2ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.20-1ubuntu1
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.16-1