Roku Developer Program

[thetick]

From the Roku SDK I tried:

Debug Info on screen: Home 5x, Rew 3x, FF 2x

Which shows:
Playing 2 mps stream on 3.6 mbs

I have my roku set to 1080p but how do I tell if the video source playing is 1080p or 720p AND 480i or 480p? Is there another debug feature I did find with this info?

[jeffrok]

2Mbps would be less than 720P, I believe.

I'm not sure there's any way to tell, specifically because of the way adaptive streaming works.. If the word "1080P" or "720P" was burnt into the video you were watching, maybe you could tell, but your Roku only knows what resolution you're at, not what quality of video that streams to your box.

Not only that, but different quality of encoding can yield different results.. Sometimes a 720P Amazon title will look better than an identical 720P Netflix title that was encoded poorly, or vice-versa.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, and I could be very wrong on this

[RokuJoel]

kbps is not an indicator of 1080/720/480p. You could have a horrible looking low quality 1080p encode at a very low bitrate. The Debug options screen is a legacy leftover and is not usually a good indicator of the actual bitrate, either, and can cause playback issues in and of itself if debug is left enabled.

- Joel