Timeline for ffprobe - why total bitrate is greater than sum of video and audio bitrates?
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| Jun 17, 2014 at 16:46 | comment | added | timonsku | The MP4 container format is quite large in comparison to other container formats, it holds a lot of information which can sum up to quite a bit of data. You will probably see less of a difference in the total sum for longer videos. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | Jim Mack | As AJ points out, the container may carry other information. Some of this can be considered metadata, and some of it is actual data other than video or audio. The MediaInfo app would likely expose more of that than ffprobe. | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 11:58 | comment | added | user2538255 | Thanks! And is this container overhead same as metadata? | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 10:56 | history | answered | Jim Mack | CC BY-SA 3.0 |