Archive:Codecinfo
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Whilst Kodi is playing media on screen you can activate the codecinfo overlay o key on a keyboard. This normally appears as white text on a black background bar located near the top of the screen (dependent on the skin being used). The codecinfo overlay displays a number of real time variables describing detailed information on the codecs currently in use.
Note: The codecinfo screen is not entirely accurate for some of the reported data, due to the fact that the codecinfo screen itself will reduce performance on low powered devices (i.e., Raspberry Pi, some Android/ARM boxes).
Current stable builds
- Video codecinfo window as seen in stable Kodi v14.x and newer builds.
Information is split into 7 lines of text:
- Audio information - Demuxer
- Audio information - Player
- Video information - Demuxer
- Video information - Player
- General playback information C
- Windowing and System CPU information
- Sync to screen information
Breakdown
Samples from the screen(s) above:
Audio information | Breakdown |
---|---|
aac | Audio codec |
mp4a / 0x6134706D | Codec ID - Format profile [1] |
48000 Hz | Sampling rate |
5.1 | Audio channels |
s16 | Sample size (s16 = signed 16-bit value) |
fltp | float, planar |
437 kb/s | Average audio bitrate (reported by demuxer) |
aq:99% | Audio queue saturation |
Kb/s:437.41 | Current audio bitrate (reported by player) |
att:0.0db | Attenuation / gain added by player |
Video information | Breakdown |
h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661) | Video codec |
yuv420p | Color space / Chroma subsampling |
1920x1080 | Resolution |
SAR 1:1 DAR 16x9 | Source Aspect Ratio - Display Aspect Ratio |
9282 kb/s | Average audio bitrate (reported by demuxer) |
fr:24.000 | Source framerate |
vq:88% | Video queue saturation |
dc:ff-h264-dxva2 | Video library performing decode |
Mb/s:7.79 | Current video bitrate (reported by player) |
drop:12 | Number of dropped frames |
skip:13 | Number of skipped frames |
pc:1 | Pullup correction pattern length |
General playback information | Breakdown |
ad:0.000 | Audio delay (configured) |
a/v:0.030 | Audio/video sync difference (real time) |
edl:- | Edit decision list |
dcpu: 0% | Relative CPU Usage of the player thread |
acpu: 0% | Relative CPU usage of the audio decode thread |
vcpu: 0% | Relative CPU Usage of the video decode thread |
cache:0 B 100% | Size of cached data and % of cache utilized |
Windowing information | Breakdown |
CPU 4 core(s) | System processor information (this display is OS-dependent) |
average: 4.7% | Average CPU load across all cores |
Sync to screen information | Breakdown |
refresh | Actual refresh-rate being displayed |
missed | Number of missed frames |
speed | Audio speed correction to sync |
sync | Video speed to enable sync |
avg | Avg amount of correction |
error | Percentage of errors syncing |
References
Further information/discussion
- See the Video Diagnostic Screen forum topic for discussion and more information.