tool to identify H.264 profile and level

[rakf1]

I wondering if there is a tool that shows the H.264 profile and levels for a .mp4 file, or any other easy way to get this information out of a h.264 video?

[Sergey A. Sablin]

I wondering if there is a tool that shows the H.264 profile and levels for a .mp4 file, or any other easy way to get this information out of a h.264 video?

Elecard StreamEye (http://www.elecard.com/products/products-pc/consumer/streameye-tools/)

[PuzZLeR]

A simple, free, no-installation way is using mp4box with YAMB and easily found through Google.

(Yamb is a GUI for mp4box.)

Just put both tools in the same directory and fire up YAMB. Go to the Extract tab and input your video.

In the "Informations" box you will see lots of info about the audio and video streams (profile, level, bitrates, sizes, etc). You can toggle between the "Global" and "By Tracks" buttons on the bottom to find what you need.

[Terranigma]

Elecard StreamEye (http://www.elecard.com/products/products-pc/consumer/streameye-tools/)

oh my, a thousand bucks just to obtain h.264 info? No Thanks! That's probably one of the biggest ripoffs i've ever seen.

[PuzZLeR]

oh my, a thousand bucks just to obtain h.264 info? No Thanks! That's probably one of the biggest ripoffs i've ever seen.

Didn't you know? It's also an eye into the future... and it comes with support!

Well, for that kind of money, I hope it would at least be a better solution than what I posted.

[rakf1]

A simple, free, no-installation way is using mp4box with YAMB and easily found through Google.

(Yamb is a GUI for mp4box.)

Just put both tools in the same directory and fire up YAMB. Go to the Extract tab and input your video.

In the "Informations" box you will see lots of info about the audio and video streams (profile, level, bitrates, sizes, etc). You can toggle between the "Global" and "By Tracks" buttons on the bottom to find what you need.

Thanks, this worked, got all the info I needed from the H.264 file...

[PuzZLeR]

You're welcome.

[buzzqw]

avinaptic

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123076

BHH

[UNITIИU]

oh my, a thousand bucks just to obtain h.264 info? No Thanks! That's probably one of the biggest ripoffs i've ever seen.

It does far more than just that as it's a suite of professional tools for encoding with h.264. But I'm guessing you didn't bother to look that far. :rolleyes:

Now it was rather ridiculous to suggest it, but your statement was equally as ridiculous.

[Terranigma]

It does far more than just that as it's a suite of professional tools for encoding with h.264. But I'm guessing you didn't bother to look that far. :rolleyes:

Now it was rather ridiculous to suggest it, but your statement was equally as ridiculous.

No, it's still ridiculous to pay a thousand bucks for an encoding tool when i can achieve amazing quality with megui for free using x264. You might wanna read the rules, specifically rule #4 before posting in the near future. :)

[guada2]

avinaptic
interesting.

Elecard streameye
my favorite.

But you can use TeKtronix too.........

[UNITIИU]

No, it's still ridiculous to pay a thousand bucks for an encoding tool when i can achieve amazing quality with megui for free using x264.

Good for you, but you're not the target consumer. It's a suite of professional tools and unlike your claim it's not a ripoff for actual professionals.


You might wanna read the rules, specifically rule #4 before posting in the near future. :)

There's nothing in the rules about calling someone on making ridiculous statements like you did. Your claim was that it was only a tool for identifying information about the stream which was patently untrue and so I called you on it.

[Terranigma]

Good for you, but you're not the target consumer. It's a suite of professional tools and unlike your claim it's not a ripoff for actual professionals.



There's nothing in the rules about calling someone on making ridiculous statements like you did. Your claim was that it was only a tool for identifying information about the stream which was patently untrue and so I called you on it.
Well from the site, that's all i gathered. Anyways, I doubt that tool will be sucessful, you must be the author of it since you joined and tried to defend it. Like I said, it's still ridiculous for the price.

[graysky]

A simple, free, no-installation way is using mp4box with YAMB and easily found through Google.

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Any solution like YAMB/mp4box for the video packaged in an mkv besides AVInaptic?

[foxyshadis]

Elecard Streameye is, more than anything else, a codec development debugging tool. Companies designing mpeg encoders, streaming encoders, and so on are the target audience, it's not made to be your average generic information tool. So they jack the price up to only be palatable to someone writing an encoder and don't care how many sales they miss. (Plus sales reps will give some discounts.)

It's still quite overpriced, but that's their decision, and compared to some development tools out there it's still relatively cheap. Especially when you need it now and don't have two weeks to write your own.

Moderaters will decide when someone gets out of line, there's no need to pull the rules on someone. (Sometime excepting rule 6.) Use the report button instead.

[bond]

h264_parse is a free tool from mpeg4ip and also shows the profile/level

[PuzZLeR]

If I may comment here.

It's professional-ware, which means it's a solution for companies who actually have more money than the average consumer.

The $1000 price tag would surely be a "rip-off" to the average person reading this forum encoding in x264, but it is a HUGE bargain for a large company with many employess when this tool saves them the hassle, and expense, of re-deploying I/T staff.

Elecard is targeting a niche market, which is more rule than exception in tech marketing these days.

To give you an idea, a few years ago an official PDF file of the latest Sony PS2 specs was released, before the PS2 was released. It cost $1500 on a certain famous "online book" site.

That's right, $1500 for just a PDF file.

As interested as I was in the then up-coming PS2, I would not have bought that document, however, a company designing products for the PS2 would benefit greatly with this advance info, and the $1500 is sneezable to them to get that advantage.

It's all really a different mindset actually.

[Terranigma]

I see your point puzzler. Wow! $1500 for a .pdf file! I can't imagine spending that much on an adobe document =P