What is a bit rate?
Detailed explanation of bit rates for video and music files Part 2
How to check the bit rate
You can check the bit rate by looking at the detailed information of video files and music files on both Windows and Mac.
How to check bitrate in Windows 10
Click Properties on the context menu of the video or audio file for which you want to check the bit rate.
Video file properties
The properties window will open, so click the Details tab. The bitrate purification method is shown on the video and audio items.
In Windows 10 video file properties, you can see three bit rates. Check the red frame in the figure above.
Data rate is the bit rate of the video data.
Total bit rate is the bit rate of the video file, including video data and audio data.
The bit rate of the audio elements is the bit rate of the audio data, isn’t it?
Video file bit rate
As you can see from the image above, the video file contains both video data and audio data, so there is a bit rate for each of the video data and audio data.
How to check the bitrate on your Mac
Open the video file in QuickTime.
On the QuickTime menu, click Window> Show Movie Inspector.
Mac Video File Inspector
The inspector is displayed. The item called data rate is the bit rate of the video file.
Image quality comparison due to bit rate differences
Bit rate comparison, original image
This image was exported from the video data.
With this video data, we prepare a video data set with a high bit rate and a low bit rate.
