[vlc] Re: Tool to validate AVC file?

[Måns Rullgård]

<tcarlyle at lsi.usp.br> writes:

>> <tcarlyle at lsi.usp.br> writes:
>> 
>> >> >> > I tried some files from the jvt-experts ftp.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Both of the files mentioned below are standard H26L NAL format files,
>> >> >> AFAICS.
>> >> >> 
>> > Hi, could you please tell me what tool you are using to validate AVC
>> > files, and if possible where to find it? I was amazed to see that
>> > you could find out that both files were valid h264 files.
>> 
>> I never said they were valid, they just looked like H.264 NAL files
>> and were decodable with an H.264 decoder.  If anyone has a proper
>> validating tool I'd be interested as well.
>> 
>
> What characteristic of the files pointed that they looked like H.264
> NAL files

I looked at them with a hex editor and they looked similar to other
H.264 files.

> and were decodable with an H.264 decoder?

I fed the files to libavcodec and got sensible images back.  Well, it
crashed on one of them.

> I would like to know it, beacause I was using a converter producing
> some h.264 files to test but I am not sure if that is working
> perfectly.

Playing them is the easiest test I can think of.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at kth.se

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