[Bug 731853] New: New tool : Add a CodecAnalyzer

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731853
  GStreamer | gst-devtools | unspecified

           Summary: New tool : Add a CodecAnalyzer
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-devtools
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: bsreerenj at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


Hi,

I would like to add a new debug-tool "codecanalyzer:
https://github.com/sreerenjb/codecanalyzer" as a part of gst-devtools.

Codecanalyzer is for doing in-depth analysis on compressed media. The initial
version only supports mpeg2, but that too will be a minimal one because we
don't have all necessary patches in upstream yet(one
eg:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704865).

The codecanalyzer will  have the following features (not all are implemented
yet):
-- It can do in-depth analysis on compressed media. 
-- It can unpack the elementary stream from a container 
-- Capable of doing packetization for the non-packetized stream 
-- Parse all the syntax elements from the elementary video stream
-- A simple UI to navigate through all the headers of each frame separately
together with the hex-dump.
-- Users would be able to analyze the media files residing in the local machine
and the remote streams via http or rtp 

The Codecanalyzer is mainly based on the codecparser libaray and videoparser
plugins in gst-plugins-bad. Also it has a new plugin called "analyzersink" to
generate the xml file for each video frame.
Codecanalzyer has dependency to gstreamer, glib, libxml and gtk.

Why we need a tool like this?:
--We don't have any open source (or even free binary ) codec analzyers and the
proprietary analyzers are too expensive to buy.
--This will be helpful tool for debugging.
--Useful for anyone to verify the specification compliance of their codec
specific products. 

Comments?

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