A plugin to control bitrate?

[Krzysztof Konopko]

I meant the average bitrate of the byte stream.  Maybe I sounded
ambiguous but I'm looking for ways to limit the data rate at which data
is read from a (remote) source (network).  Typically data is read in
the pipeline as fast as possible (especially when there's a lot of
buffering in the pipeline).
So let's say there's 10MB buffer in the pipeline and it will be filled
as fast as possible reading from source (network) while I'm looking for
limiting the rate at which the buffer is filled (want to save on
network capacity).It's not a question of how to implement it but rather
how to not reinvent the wheel if something like this already exists.
I hope it made it clearer.
Thanks,Kris
On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 08:56 -0700, David Ing wrote:
> 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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