Any h.264 analysis tool available?

[foxyshadis]

Are there any tools like the Divx DRF analyser ( http://www.geocities.com/analyzerdrf/ ) available for h.264 yet? That tool won't open them (not that I expect the results to be meaningful), and I'd really like to have a tool that could show size/quant distributions over the file, dropped frames, and pointing out potential gotchas. Otherwise the only way to do it would be to export the info from avisynth and use excel.

[Sergey A. Sablin]

Are there any tools like the Divx DRF analyser ( http://www.geocities.com/analyzerdrf/ ) available for h.264 yet? That tool won't open them (not that I expect the results to be meaningful), and I'd really like to have a tool that could show size/quant distributions over the file, dropped frames, and pointing out potential gotchas. Otherwise the only way to do it would be to export the info from avisynth and use excel.
try this - http://www.elecard.com/products/streameye.shtml

[bond]

not directly what you want, but h264_parse from mpeg4ip (free) displays which frame has what frametype, what encoding features got used, etc...

[ac-chan123]

http://m4if.org/products/mpeg-4.php

[Sharktooth]

http://www.aziendeassociate.it/cd//x264/countquant_x264.7z

[foxyshadis]

I'd like to revive this thread with a little more info on what I've tried, since I'm writing a couple of analysis scripts to work on this. It has to work on encoded material and not stats files, like countquant, and so far I've found most useful:

mkvverify (no quants)
h264_parse (no quants)
ffdshow OSD export (skips first few frames)

Streameye is incredibly detailed in gui but has a lame csv dump (and interface, for that matter). I put the first two together to get types, sizes, timing, and stream info. I'd really prefer to have lo/hi/mean/median quants, but I'll take just mean like ffdshow gives, it's just that those first few frames missing are annoying. mp4 tools really don't give anything useful (to me). I don't know, maybe I'll have to compile my own ffdshow, heh. Prefer to use mplayer/mencoder/ffmpeg but none of those seem to output anything of the sort.

Anyone know anything better or do I keep looking?

[dimzon]

oh shit!
StreamEye for $299
I hate such greed peoples!
I really does'nt understand why not make this tool freeware at all...

[Kostarum Rex Persia]

oh shit!
StreamEye for $299
I hate such greed peoples!
I really doesn't understand why not make this tool freeware at all...

Me too. That's really strange:devil: :devil: :devil: I am furious.

[bond]

what kind of info does mkvverify display?

[foxyshadis]

Duration : 00:02:18.938
File size: 6.15 MByte
Segment 0
Duration : 00:02:18.938
Muxing App : Haali Matroska Writer b0
Writing App : x264
Timecode Scale: 50,000
Track 0
Number : 1
UID : 0x00000001
Type : video
CodecID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Enabled : yes
Default : yes
Forced : no
Lacing : no
DefaultDuration : 33,366,700
MinCache : 0
MaxCache : 0
Language : eng
Resolution :
Pixels : 352x240
cropped : (0,0)-(352,240)
Display : 22x15
Unit : pixel


Checking segment 0...
parsing Cues...


track 0: 563 / 0 bytes at 00:00:00.000
track 0: 3711 / 563 bytes at 00:00:00.033 refs: -33ms
track 0: 1233 / 4274 bytes at 00:00:00.100 refs: -67ms
track 0: 386 / 5507 bytes at 00:00:00.066 refs: 33ms
track 0: 2413 / 5893 bytes at 00:00:00.166 refs: -100ms
track 0: 750 / 8306 bytes at 00:00:00.133 refs: 33ms
track 0: 2238 / 9056 bytes at 00:00:00.200 refs: -67ms
track 0: 2374 / 11294 bytes at 00:00:00.233 refs: -33ms
track 0: 2002 / 13668 bytes at 00:00:00.266 refs: -33ms
track 0: 2330 / 15670 bytes at 00:00:00.333 refs: -67ms
track 0: 1085 / 18000 bytes at 00:00:00.300 refs: 33ms
track 0: 1723 / 19085 bytes at 00:00:00.367 refs: -67ms
track 0: 1904 / 20808 bytes at 00:00:00.433 refs: -67ms
track 0: 966 / 22712 bytes at 00:00:00.400 refs: 33ms
track 0: 1343 / 23678 bytes at 00:00:00.467 refs: -67ms
....
track 0: 84 / 6388828 bytes at 00:02:18.905 refs: -133ms
track 0: 18 / 6388912 bytes at 00:02:18.872 refs: 33ms
track 0: 15 / 6388930 bytes at 00:02:18.838 refs: 33ms

raw stream sizes:
track 1 : 6,388,945 avg. bitrate: 368 kbps frames: 4,165
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sum of tracks : 6,388,945
segment size : 127
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
overhead : - 6,388,818


Heh, Elecard charges like they do because they don't want to hear from you unless you're really serious about it. They don't want to support you or me, they want high rollers only. (I do wonder why they don't put the tool out there for free with an "absolutely no support without platinum subscription" or something, but whatever.)

[bond]

thanks

[Zero1]

vprove is an excellent tool, though not free, and pretty expensive if I recall correctly. I'm not sure if it does what you want, but I'd be surprised if it didn't. I'm not able to link right now since I'm typing from my mobile phone, but if you google for it or maybe vpual, you should be able to get a trial just to see how it is with the provided HD H.264 samples. Also includes common test streams like foreman if I recall correctly.

I was very impressed with it, and I think not all features are available in the trial, but it's fun to try anyway. It seems to be aimed at a professional market, ie people tuning codecs for companies.. Maybe someone will donate a copy to xvid + x264 if it would be of use ;p

Enjoy the trial if you decide to poke at it, just sorry I don't know of anything more practical,

[Sergey A. Sablin]

vprove is an excellent tool, though not free, and pretty expensive if I recall correctly. I'm not sure if it does what you want, but I'd be surprised if it didn't. I'm not able to link right now since I'm typing from my mobile phone, but if you google for it or maybe vpual, you should be able to get a trial just to see how it is with the provided HD H.264 samples. Also includes common test streams like foreman if I recall correctly.

I was very impressed with it, and I think not all features are available in the trial, but it's fun to try anyway. It seems to be aimed at a professional market, ie people tuning codecs for companies.. Maybe someone will donate a copy to xvid + x264 if it would be of use ;p

Enjoy the trial if you decide to poke at it, just sorry I don't know of anything more practical,

trial version does parse only build-in streams, so you are not able to parse your own streams. but yes you have to try it and of course ask about price to compare with some another "greedy" people.