[vlc] Re: Tool to validate AVC file?

[tcarlyle at lsi.usp.br]

> >> >> >> > 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.
> 

Do you know some place where I can find some valid h264 videos which I can use
for some tests here? By the way, did you try to view those files in a
different player, or do you know another avc player?

Thanks,
Thomas

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