Streaming Media quality metrics

Last update: December 13, 2024

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This page describes the available metrics when you enable Media Quality for a report suite. See Streaming Media quality dimensions for available dimensions.

Streaming Media quality metrics provide supplemental reporting functionality to data collection through streaming media collection libraries. Use of these metrics require the Adobe Streaming Media Collection. Contact your Adobe Account Team for details.

When you enable Media Quality under Media reporting, the following metrics are available:

Metric nameDescriptionSent withContext data variable
Average bitrateA weighted average of all bitrate values for the play duration of a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.bitrateAverage
Bitrate change impacted streamsA boolean that triggers if the bitrate changes at least once during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.bitrateChange
Bitrate changesThe number of times that the bitrate changed.Media Closea.media.qoe.bitrateChangeCount
Buffer impacted streamsA boolean that triggers if the video enters a Buffer state at least once.Media Closea.media.qoe.buffer
Buffer eventsThe number of times that the video buffered during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.bufferCount
Total buffer durationThe amount of time that a video spent buffering across all buffer events, in seconds.Media Closea.media.qoe.bufferTime
Drops before startA boolean that triggers if a user quits before a video’s main content starts.Media Closea.media.qoe.dropBeforeStart
Dropped framesAn integer that represents the total number of frames that were dropped during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.droppedFrameCount
Dropped frame impacted streamsA boolean that triggers when any frames are dropped during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.droppedFrames
Error impacted streamsA boolean that triggers when a video experiences an error at any time during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.error
Error eventsAn integer that represents the total number of errors encountered during a playback session.Media Closea.media.qoe.errorCount
Time to startThe amount of time taken to start a video, in milliseconds. Adobe converts and stores this value in seconds.Media Closea.media.qoe.timeToStart

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