General Tools

About this collection

General Tools brings together 514 curated resources from across the video technology landscape. Notable topics include API Libraries & SDKs, Build Scripts & Automation, Case Studies & Best Practices in DRM, and Command-line Utilities & Wrappers.

Resources (showing 385–408 of 514)

• mp4box.js File Reader — Browser ISOBMFF Box InspectorZero-install browser tool that renders the full box tree of any MP4/CMAF file for structural debugging.
• player-inspectorTool for inspecting the runtime behavior of MSE-based video players (buffer, segment requests, quality switches).
• shaka-player-cmcd-v2-pluginProof-of-concept CMCD v2 plugin for Shaka Player, including Response Mode server-response metrics collection.
• webrtc-dump-importer — chrome://webrtc-internals Dump AnalyzerImports webrtc-internals JSON dumps and plots getStats time series as zoomable graphs for diagnosing real-time session issues.
• AMWA NMOS Testing ToolWeb-service test suite that generates NMOS API conformance tests from the specs; the basis of JT-NM Tested certification.
• CMCD-CAdViSEAcademic tool extending the CAdViSE streaming testbed for CMCD-aware per-device bitrate ladder evaluation (CADLAD).
• Canary Monitor for HLS and DASH StreamsSynthetic probe that periodically fetches HLS/DASH manifests and ad-tracking beacons, detecting stale segments, manifest regressions, DASH…
• Eyevinn HLS Stream MonitorSelf-hosted Grafana+Prometheus stack with preconfigured dashboards/datasources for monitoring HLS stream metrics.
• GStreamerVideoMetricsIngests RTMP via GStreamer and exposes Prometheus metrics (fps, pipeline uptime, frame size, codec).
• Improving Video Observability with CMCD and CloudFrontAWS engineering blog on parsing CMCD query-string metrics from CloudFront real-time logs into Timestream with a Grafana dashboard for sessi…
• Open Sourcing Our PTP and ST 2110 Analysis Tool (Open Broadcast Systems)Release write-up for a lightweight open source PTP and ST 2110 stream analyzer aimed at practical field troubleshooting.
• SRT Prometheus ExporterLibrary exposing per-socket SRT statistics (CBytePerfMon) as Prometheus metrics with a built-in scrape endpoint and stat whitelist/blacklis…
• YouTube Stream Monitoring DashboardGrafana dashboard for YouTube live stream monitoring: status, viewers, engagement metrics.
• antaresGo tool that monitors HLS/DASH streams, outputs inspection reports, includes SpeedInspector checking segment-addition speed vs real time.
• ffmpeg_exporterPrometheus exporter probing stream URLs directly via ffmpeg, exposing bitrate/fps/connection-state as gauges, server-agnostic.
• hls-cmcdLibrary for decorating HLS manifests/requests with CTA-5004 CMCD (Common Media Client Data) query parameters.
• nginx_rtmp_prometheusPrometheus exporter scraping NGINX-RTMP module's rtmp_stat, exposing stream count, bytes in/out, and bandwidth metrics.
• player-analytics-specificationOpen, backend-agnostic spec (TypeScript/JSON schema) for video player analytics data format.
• stream-testerLivepeer's load/health-check tool that pushes RTMP ingest, reads back HLS, reports segment success rate with Discord alerting.
• streamsurferGo tool that probes HTTP video streams (HLS) for errors in a health-check style, successor to the Python hlsprobe tool.
• twitch_exporterPrometheus exporter for the Twitch.tv API, ships a pre-built Grafana dashboard.
• video-latency-toolkitMeasures end-to-end video latency via encoded time-signal image, capture and parse, outputs Prometheus metrics.
• video-quality-tools (LCMApps)Node.js tools wrapping ffprobe to detect fps/bitrate drops and GOP structure changes in real time on live streams.
• ABR-video-transcode (Xilinx)Hardware ABR transcode pipeline: H.264 decode to multi-rendition scale to VP9/HEVC encode via FPGA TDM encoder.