MPEG Viewer

The MPEG Viewer ingests common MPEG-based containers and deconstructs them into analyzable data without playback. It targets developers, broadcast engineers, QA analysts, and media archivists who need reliable stream insight during encoding, packaging, and validation. By exposing per-stream details such as codec, resolution, frame rate, duration, and bitrate estimates, it helps identify mispackaged tracks, incorrect frame sizes, and timing misalignments early in the workflow. The tool emphasizes deterministic results by using standard parsing rules and avoids assumptions about proprietary/DRM content.
Core capabilities include container-aware parsing, per-stream metadata extraction, and numeric metrics. Required features are: support for MP4, MPEG-TS containers; surface of stream-level and frame-level attributes; and export of results in JSON or CSV. Optional/advanced features include GOP structure analysis, timecode alignment validation, error flags for out-of-sequence frames, and configurable filters to limit scope by stream type. The tool reports partial results if inputs are incomplete and notes any codec or container limitations.
Operational workflow: provide an input source (file path or URL), specify parsing scope, run analysis, and review structured outputs. Outputs include parsed_streams (codec, resolution, duration, bitrate), overall_duration, and a validation_report. In practice, teams use the data to validate packaging for delivery, debug sync issues, and confirm compliance with broadcast standards. The data portability and lack of playback enable integration into automated pipelines and ETL processes.