DVDview - MPEG video decoder
DVDview is a software only MPEG-1/2 video decoder. A special feature of the decoder is its ability to superimpose additional information to the video sequence like motion vectors or quantizer scales (more to come). It runs on any UNIX system, preferably Linux, as many of the features depend on it. When compiled as x86 binary, dvdview can make use of special MMX code.
Features
- Extraction of MPEG-audio or AC3 streams (mpg123, ac3dec needed for audio decoding)
- Saving decoded frames as PPM or YUV files
- Debugging output with adjustable verbosity
- Overlay-display of
- Macroblock boundaries
- Motion vectors
- Motion vectors (coded as color information)
- QScale value
- decoding speed (fps)
Note: Although DVDview is able to decode MPEG-2 streams, there is no code included to circumvent the DVD copy protection. Only unprotected discs can be read.
Screenshots
Output with QScale values overlay
Output with motionvectors overlay
Output with colored motion (note the different objects moving in different directions)
Output with colored motion (zooming / on the left: zoom in / on the right: zoom out)
MPEG-2
News
- 11.Nov.2002 / V1.2.2
- now compiles cleanly with gcc 3.2
- aalib output
- 04.Oct.2000 / V1.1.0
- now robust against bitstream errors
- 16x8 field prediction mode supported
- syncs video to realtime clock
- resizing of X11 output
- fps display
- output architecture completely rewritten (invisible to normal users)
- 21.Jun.2000 / V1.0.2
- direct VideoCD access
- 4:2:2 chroma support
- 13.Jun.2000
- V1.0.1: added Linux MGA_VID driver support
- The mailinglist is now up (see contact page)
- 06.Jun.2000 First release of DVDview.
Downloads
DVDview requires that you have installed the video processing library.
DVDview is freely available under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
The software should run on any UNIX system. On x86 systems MMX accelerated code considerably speeds up decompression. You can get the sources from one of the links below or via anonymous access to the CVS archive.
- source 1.2.2 (11.Nov.2002)
- source prerelease (1.2.1)
- source pre 1.2.0 CVS snapshot (02.Nov.2001)
- source 1.1.0 (04.Oct.2000)
- source 1.0.2 (21.Jun.2000)
- source 1.0.1 (13.Jun.2000)
- source 1.0.0 (06.Jun.2000)
Additional Information
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