The tools are targeted at System's layer analysis of MPEG
streams. For the most part they operate on MPEG files, verifying
their conformance to the MPEG standard and allowing one to view some of
the files characteristics. The Transport Stream module, VK-TAFE,
also allows one to stream a bitstream to the analyzer for continous
monitoring.
What about other,
non-Systems layer, testing like video?
I may add some elementary stream (e.g. Video) testing tools if time
permits; however, I don't have any specific plans or time table to do
so.
What about ports
to other platforms?
I really don't have much interest in porting the software to a variety
of platforms. I have, however, done the following:
I have created a version of view_knot_viewer
and vk_tafe for win32
using the cygwin development
platform although these versions will sometimes be older. If you
encounter problems with them, however, please try the native Linux
version (support for the win32 versions will be Slack)
In the View Knot Tools archive there is a version of view_knot_viewer and vk_tafe compiled for a RedHat 7.2
system (using gcc 2.96). Since RH dropped support of their
consumer line (understable there, not complaining) I am not keeping it
up2date -- I uninstalled RH.
In the main archive there is a version of vk_tafe and view_knot_viewer compiled for
FreeBSD
5.2
The main archive also contains an older version of vk_tafe and view_knot_viewer compiled for
Mandrake 9.1