Thank you - great work ....

[SquarePenguin]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:45:57 +0000 (GMT)
"Dave Liquorice" <allsorts at howhill.com> wrote:

> I run get_iplayer on Raspberry-Pi and the bit rate shown during
> transcoding a HD download is normally around 2500kbits/sec which I
> have always taken to be the bitrate of the resultant stream. It also
> reports a "fps" which normally has value of around a couple of 100.
> If the bit rate was that of the conversion it would be an awful lot
> higher than 2.5 Mbps...

That explains it. I tested on a download before I commented and even saw the frame rate sit about 8000 (on a core i5) and should have made the leap that the bitrate was that of the stream and not the conversion. That's clarified it for me.