Streaming Media quality metrics

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

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