PVAStruments

[Krammie]

Has any one heart of the program "PVAStruments". This program gives interesting details about an mpeg-2 tre

Greatings
Krammie from Holland

[BJ_M]

bit rate viewer will also give you a lot of details but if you want to know everything you have to use M-probe , but it will cost you a lot of money..

PVAStrumento is a tool to convert files recorded with a DVB PC-card in PVA-format to regular MPEG2 program streams.
It can also be used to "repair" existing MPEG2 PS for further processing.
PVAstrumento is freeware and may be freely downloaded, used and distributed.
PVAStrumento will also accept MPEG2 PS input for demuxing and syncing. Internally some things have changed - mainly the correction of misalign audio frames, thus dropping less blocks than before.
. In digital video broadcasting the sound and images are send in an MPEG2 transport stream. This is a format that was specifically designed for transmission of video over non-lossless media (such as airwaves or the internet). A DVB-receiver has to cope with packet loss and can do so thanks to the nature of the transport stream. When you want to play videos on your computer ("software player") or VCD-/DVD-player ("standalone player") these devices expect an MPEG2 program stream, a format specifically designed for video storage on mass storage media. Therefore to play the video captured with a DVB-card in your computer, the stream has to be converted from transport stream (TS) to program stream (PS) format.
Several manufacturers of TI TMS320AV711x based cards (TechnoTrend, Siemens, Hauppauge, and more) have chosen, not to store the data not as transport stream but in a more compact format which they call "PVA", which is near to the chips input buffer format. It is not an MPEG standard format, but it is based on the same elementary streams (ES). Therefore it can be converted into MPEG2 formats.

also from same people :::::::


MPEGanalizzatore

tries to help you in finding the structure of an MPEG2 Program Stream.
If you are like me, always trying to find the "best" way to convert your videos into something your DVD-Player will grok .... you might also be like me in always trying out new programs. And then you wonder ... why is that generated MPEG PS so funny...

MPEGanalizzatore tells you about the packs, the headers, the GOPs and pics inside an MPEG2 Program Stream.

If you are like me, trying to handcraft your own tools, MPEGanalizzatore may be of even more use --- to find out, _what_ your program really produces.

MPEGanalizzatore is freeware and may be freely downloaded, used and distributed.

[BJ_M]

http://www.offeryn.de/dv.htm#pvas



they also have

A video-header patcher. Useful to generate (mini)DVDs with non-standard video resolutions (like 480x480).

AVestensione lets you patch the headers to be "conforming" before starting the DVD-authoring, and re-patch them before burning the DVD.

In addition AVestensione lets you patch the aspect ratio of an MPEG2 file, which may habe been changed for instance by mpeg2vcr V 3.11.

someone should try these out and can be added to tools section (all freeware)