On 6/29/20, Alex wrote:
> Hi All!
> I faced difficulties while trying to measure sound level for a
> multimedia file with multiple audio streams. Here is the background:
>
> 1) ffmpeg 4.2.2 and it was used in different OS (Windows, FreeBSD).
>
> 2) The source file:
>
> Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'test1.mov':
> Metadata:
> major_brand : qt
> minor_version : 537199360
> compatible_brands: qt
> creation_time : 2020-05-05T09:48:02.00Z
> Duration: 01:01:15.04, start: 0.00, bitrate: 29791 kb/s
> Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mpeg2video (Main) (xdvc / 0x63766478),
> yuv420p(tv, bt709, top coded first (swapped)), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR
> 16:9], 26715 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 50 tbc (default)
> Metadata:
> creation_time : 2020-05-05T09:48:02.00Z
> handler_name: Apple Video Media Handler
> encoder : XDCAM EX 1080i50 (35 Mb/s VBR)
> timecode: 00:00:00:00
> Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le (sowt / 0x74776F73), 48000 Hz,
> stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
> Metadata:
> creation_time : 2020-05-05T09:48:02.00Z
> handler_name: Apple Sound Media Handler
> timecode: 00:00:00:00
> Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le (sowt / 0x74776F73), 48000 Hz,
> stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
> Metadata:
> creation_time : 2020-05-05T09:48:02.00Z
> handler_name: Apple Sound Media Handler
> timecode: 00:00:00:00
> Stream #0:3(eng): Data: none (tmcd / 0x64636D74) (default)
> Metadata:
> creation_time : 2020-05-05T11:14:47.00Z
> handler_name: Time Code Media Handler
> timecode: 00:00:00:00
> Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 3
>
> And the stream #0:2 is empty (no sound at all)! This is important.
>
> 3) The way I used to measure the sound level:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38056970/ffmpeg-txt-from-audio-levels
>
> The documentation (https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#astats-1) says
> that it's possible to set the channel number (starting from 1) or string
> 'Overall' for the integral value. I decided to print levels for 1st and
> 2nd audio streams separately and overall levels finally. Here is the
> command:
>
> ffprobe -hide_banner -f lavfi -i
> amovie=test1.mov,astats=metadata=1:reset=1 -show_entries
> frame=pkt_pts_time:frame_tags=lavfi.astats.1.Peak_level,lavfi.astats.2.Peak_level,lavfi.astats.Overall.Peak_level
> -of csv=p=0
>
> And here is what I see:
>
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x80557b600] st: 0 edit list: 1 Missing key
> frame while searching for timestamp: 0
> [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x80557b600] st: 0 edit list 1 Cannot find an
> index entry before timestamp: 0.
> Input #0, lavfi, from
> 'amovie=/mnt/playout6/Playout/Trinity/Exxxotica/Media/test1.mov,astats=metadata=1:reset=1':
> Duration: N/A, start: 0.00, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
> Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s
> 0.00,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.021333,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.042667,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.064000,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.085333,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.106667,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.128000,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.149333,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.170667,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.192000,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.21,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.234667,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.256000,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.277333,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.298667,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.32,-inf,-inf,-inf
> 0.341333,-40.124683,-48.232659,-40.124683
> 0.362667,-24.450328,-20.442361,-20.442361
> 0.384000,-15.920450,-15.235541,-15.235541
> 0.405333,-17.108509,-13.644516,-13.644516
> 0.426667,-15.176011,-13.778167,-13.778167
> 0.448000,-14.284777,-14.921187,-14.284777
> 0.469333,-14.353691,-13.147619,-13.147619
> 0.490667,-15.612737,-13.749723,-13.749723
> 0.512000,-15.577617,-14.215043,-14.215043
> 0.53,-15.476248,-14.472115,-14.472115
> 0.554667,-15.115377,-11.835565,-11.835565
> 0.576000,-15.372937,-13.422919,-13.422919
> 0.597333,-5.541789,-4.610649,-4.610649
> 0.618667,-13.954783,-10.754262,-10.754262
> 0.64,-12.198213,-13.178989,-12.198213
> 0.661333,-13.894198,-14.257364,-13.894198
> 0.682667,-14.118886,-12.640048,-12.640048
> 0.704000,-13.659833,-14.141813,-13.659833
> 0.725333,-17.131342,-16.504812,-16.504812
> 0.746667,-18.004467,-18.494126,-18.004467
> 0.768000,-14.940412,-16.608238,-14.940412
> 0.789333,-13.574658,-13.259134,-13.259134
> 0.810667,-12.985351,-13.042276,-12.985351
> 0.832000,-9.460374,-9.366353,-9.366353
> 0.85,-13.081630,-10.817579,-10.817579
> 0.874667,-14.097363,-15.270840,-14.097363
> 0.896000,-15.432269,-13.685421,-13.685421
> 0.917333,-16.315447,-14.210959,-14.210959
> 0.938667,-14.378635,-13.564543,-13.564543
> ...
>
> It is a lie. The second audio stream is totally silent from the
> beginning to the end. Also, note that ffprobe mentioned the only audio
> stream and it was #0:0. Why?
>
> I decided to test audio streams separately and copied them to separate
> files, then checked the sound level. For the first stream:
>
