Audio vs Video bit rate

[Summerland]

Which would be a bit better?

#1 Data Rate: 4254 kbps
Total Bit Rate: 4574 kbps
Audio bit rate: 319 kbps


# 2 Data Rate: 5594 kbps
Total Bit Rate: 5870 kbps
Audio bit rate: 276 kbps

[Supafly]

Personally I'd go with #2
Mainly cause I'm less likely to hear a difference in audio quality with my current, average quality, audio equipment. So 45kbps won't mean much if anything to me.

[Cathulhu]

Depends on the codec used. Talking bitrate is rather pointless if you don't know which codecs and which profiles are used.

[Summerland]

I don't know much about it. Its just for food reviews that I do. I use Iskysoft to convert the file usually to Mp4 because MKV it doesn't seem to show as much details on the file properties. That probably doesn't help unfortunitly.

[Cathulhu]

Mp4 and MKV is just a container, which says nothing about the codecs being used to encode the video or audio stream.

[tacoshy]

a common codec as example is H.264

[Summerland]

X264 Codec

[Cathulhu]

That's a video codec, what about audio?

[Summerland]

Not sure how to find out.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Summerland:

Not sure how to find out.

If you use VLC player load the file in that then press Ctrl + I > Codec Tab

You'll have atleast 2 Streams shown. One for Audio and the other for Video. Codec: will be the first listed in each stream. If you don't know the difference between Video and Audio codecs look 2 lines below the codec and it'll have the Type: Video/Audio.

Will be similar ways to find out using other applications

[Summerland]

Thanks.
Both are



Video: H264

Audio: Mpeg AAC (mp4a)
Channels: 3F2R/LFE