Media Stats

Diagnosing Performance from the Live Broadcast and Hosted Viewer

Both the Live Broadcaster and Hosted Viewer provide a Media Stats option to open a modal overlay during broadcast or playback that displays information that can be helpful in judging the performance or diagnosing issues when troubleshooting.

  • Current RTT: round trip time in milliseconds for sending and receiving the stream
  • Available Outgoing Bitrate: detected capacity of the network that is available for a broadcast
  • Candidate Type
  • Video Resolution: width and height of the video frame
  • Quality Limitation Reason: message if quality is being degraded
  • FPS (Calculated): frames per second
  • Video Bitrate: video kb per second
  • Audio Bitrate: audio kb per second
  • Video Total Sent: sum data transfer for the bandwidth attributed to the video stream
  • Audio Total Sent: sum data transfer for the bandwidth attributed to the audio stream
  • Codecs: the audio and video codecs used by the broadcaster
  • Timestamp: the UTC time for the broadcast
  • Server: this can be provided to our support team as an aid to troubleshooting network issues
  • Cluster: the data center being used for the broadcast origin. See Cluster Regions for more details on this data

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Active Broadcast

The Media Stats are only available during an active broadcast.

Example

An example of what values from a broadcast might report.