A plugin to control bitrate?

[David Ing]

If you wanted to modify the bitrate of encoded data, you would need to
decode it and then re-encode it at the new bitrate.  Typically the encoder
is where you would set the new bitrate.

The only exception would be related to formats such as HLS, where several
different variants of a stream are pre-encoded (at different bitrates) and
you can select which variant to consume.  There may be a plugin for
consuming HLS streams but I do not know it off the top of my head.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:49 AM Krzysztof Konopko <
krzysztof.konopko at konagma.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether there exists an element to control the
> (download) bitrate in the pipeline.  Something like:
>
>     souphttpsrc location=... ! bitrate max-bitrate=100000 ! ...
>
> As I understand, none of the source elements offer this functionality
> and I'm looking for something that'd work with arbitrary byte streams
> (say, MPEG-TS).
>
> I checked all plugins built on my PC but couldn't find anything
> suitable but I might have missed something.
>
> I suppose such element would either block in push mode to accommodate
> for the selected bitrate or in pull mode it'd schedule data requests
> accordingly.
>
> Any hints appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris
>
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