[Bug 606287] Add an 'is-vbr' boolean tag

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606287
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | unspecified

Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Stefan Kost (gstreamer, gtkdoc dev) <ensonic at sonicpulse.de> 2011-02-28 21:41:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Wouldn't IS_VBR be a better name for this?

I think a stream "has a variable bitrate".

> 
> And what exactly does VBR or CBR mean in general? You always have to talk about
> a constant size for a specific time unit, e.g. all 384 sample frames have the
> same size for mp3.
> 
> Also, to *guarantee* that an mp3 stream is CBR you have to look at every single
> frame and the same is probably true for most other formats.

I was wondering earlier if we would need a probability or a string like "cbr,
maybe-cbr, unknown, maybe-vbr, vbr". But that's ugly :/

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