Re: [backstage-developer] MPEG analysers

[Steve Wheeler]

Hi Have you seen TSReader (http://www.coolstf.com/tsreader/)?  It's a software tool that can capture, decode and display MPEG transport streams (as opposed to program streams).  In terms of coping with  specific codecs within the audio and video elementary streams I think it will show you the format in use and let you use a local codec to play it, rather than analyse them in any further detail. It can use some capture hardware, TS stored in files and in theory can read captured network traffic, though I had more sucess using dvbsnoop (http://dvbsnoop.sourceforge.net/) for the latter.  The interface there isnt as nice though! Others you could look for are pesdecode, tsdecode, mpeg2analyse and vk_tools for MPEG.  Or if you have money and want something shiney, Tektronix make things (http://www.tek.com/products/video_test/mpeg_analyzers.html) - though have never used them. Cheers Steve Stephen Stewart wrote: Hi, I’m looking around for some advice on the best MPEG analyser to think about buying – we’re after something which can cope with a variety of formats (h.264,mpeg2,ac3,aac,mp2/3 audio), can capture transport streams and load pcap dumps (also if possible cope with RTP/RTSP streams), manage timing and buffer analysis and offer some sort of picture selection (either visual or by timestamp). A long list I know, and may not be possible to have something that covers all bases, but would welcome any suggestions people may have for either hardware or software solutions. I did wonder if maybe some of the EBU member organisations may have developed some addons to the main contenders out there (Tektronics etc) ?? Cheers, Stephen Stewart (Ex. BBC broadcast engineer/software developer) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.