H264 frame viewer

Question

Do you know any application that will display me all the headers/parameters of a single H264 frame? I don\'t need to decode it, I just want to see how it is built up.

Answer 1

Three ways come to my mind (if you are looking for something free, otherwise google "h264 analysis" for paid options):

1. Download the h.264 parser from (from this thread @ doom9 forums)

2. Download the h.264 reference software

3. libh264bitstream provides h.264 bitstream reading/writing

This should get you started. By the way, the h.264 bitstream is described in Annex. B. in the ITU specs.