Quality API on JWPlayer 6

JW Player — Apr 04, 2014 09:08AM EDT

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Hi everybody,

I've been working with JWPlayer for days developing a simple analytics plugin for the newer 6 version.

The plugin logic relies on player events which is enough for us.
All is working pretty good as expected.
But the issue comes when I try to get the current bitrate of the video asset that is playing.
As I've seen in many threads on this forum that is possible using the Javascript API (this is mandatory because we want the plugin run on web browsers and mobile devices).
So in Quality API section I see available:
bc.. jwplayer().getQualityLevels() -> array of level objects
jwplayer().getCurrentQuality() -> current selected level of the array


And as the documentation says I should retrieve the bitrate from the level object like:
bc.. var levels = jwplayer().getQualityLevels();
var currentBitrate = levels[jwplayer().getCurrentQuality()].bitrate;


But unfortunatelly I get the current index, the array of levels but inside every level object I'm only able to see the attribute
bc.. label


No bitrate or other metadata seems to be returned.

I've also tried to force Flash player to load with
bc.. primary: "flash"


on the player setup but the same results are shown.

So I wonder how to get the current video bitrate for sending to our analytics account using a plugin.
Is this related with the video encoding?
In which situations I will recieve the bitrate on the level object?
Is there any other workaround for calculating the average bitrate (or near value) for the current playback?

Thanks,
Adrian.