Media Stats

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.

• RTT: Round trip time in milliseconds for sending and receiving the stream.
• Video Resolution: Width and height of the video frame.
• FPS (Calculated): Frames per second.
• Video Bitrate: Video kb per second.
• Audio Bitrate: Audio kb per second.
• Video Total Received: Sum data transfer for the bandwidth attributed to the video stream.
• Audio Total Received: Sum data transfer for the bandwidth attributed to the audio stream.
• Video Packet Loss : The number of video packets lost.
• Audio Packet Loss: The number of audio packets lost.
• Video Jitter : The typical deviation of video packet reception times in milliseconds.
• Audio Jitter : The typical deviation of audio packet reception times in milliseconds.
• Capture Timestamp : The time when the frame was sent by the encoder. Note: This field is only available in Chromium-based browsers.
• Capture Delta Time: The difference between the local system timestamp at the time the frame was received, and the timestamp received in the Capture Timestamp field. Note: This field is only available in Chromium-based browsers.
• Codecs: The audio and video codecs used by the broadcaster.
• Timestamp: The date and time (UTC) for when the browser gathered media stats.
• 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. You may also be interested in other means of gathering Client Analytics and monitoring the playback experience.

Example

An example of what values from a broadcast might report.