MPEG Bits Analyzer (Version 1.0b; August 1995) Ketan Patel Steve Smoot Brian Smith Douglas Banks Computer Science Division-EECS, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley This directory contains a public domain MPEG video software analyzer. It operates by playing a video stream in one window, while another window displays the block sizes type for each block in the current frame. The decoder implements the standard described in the Committee Draft ISO/IEC CD 11172 dated December 6, 1991 which is sometimes refered to as "Paris Format." The code has been compiled and tested on the following platforms: HP PA-RISC (HP/UX 8.X, X11R4) (i.e., HP 9000/7XX and 9000/3XX) Sun Sparc (SunOS 4.X, X11R5) This directory contains everything required to build and display video. We have included source code, a makefile, installation instructions, and a man page. Data files can be obtained from the same ftp site this was located in. See the INSTALL file for instructions on how to compile and run mpeg_bits. Problems, questions, or patches should be sent to: mpeg-bugs@Plateau.CS.Berkeley.EDU ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We gratefully thank Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu, the Semiconductor Research Corporation for financial support. We also want to thank the following people for their help: Tom Lane of the Independent JPEG Group provided us with the basic inverse DCT code used by our player. (tom_lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu) Reid Judd of Sun Microsystems provided advice and assistance. Todd Brunhoff of NVR provided advice and assistance. Toshihiko Kawai of Sony provided advice and assistance.