Streaming Media (Video) Debug Tools and Tutorials

1. debug.video

debug.video is a wrapper for ffmpeg and ffprobe which helps to debug the HLS and DASH streams. It supports opening different variants of manifests, downloading segments, concatenating those segments with init segments, etc. This is free to use and open source. See the debug.video website for more details. For installation -

• Download and install ffmpeg.
• Download and install debug.video

2. MediaInfo

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. This is open source. Here. is the download link for different platforms.

3. Axiom Media Tools

Axiom Media Tools provides different tools that help to work with clear and DRM-protected media.

• Decoders
  • Codecs String Decoder
  • License Request Decoder
  • PSSH Box Decoder
  • PSSH Data Decoder
• Generators
  • PSSH Box Generator
• Capabilities
  • Media Capabilities

Check the tools.axinom.com for more information.

4. DebugVideo

This is a collection of tools, topics, and code snippets that may help video devs debug browser-based video playback. Check debugvideo.com for more information.

5. ffmpeg.guide

ffmpeg.guide is a simple GUI tool to create complex FFmpeg filtergraph quickly and correctly, without having to mess with cumbersome filter syntax. See the ffmpeg.guide for more details.