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ffprobe is great but I couldn't get it to show a 1-liner info of each frame, let alone a graphic representation. Is there some software that can either take the json output of ffprobe and show it graphically or analyze a h.264 stream and show it graphically? I'm looking at types of frames, sizes etc...
And preferably I'm looking for a tool for Mac.
You can certainly get a 1-line readout per frame from ffprobe. Use
ffprobe -v 16 -show_entries frame=pict_type,pkt_size,pkt_pts_time -select_streams v -of csv=p=0 in.mp4
This will generate an output like this
1.600000,55307,I
1.640000,5610,B
1.680000,19691,B
1.720000,24077,B
1.760000,39859,P
1.800000,24254,B
1.840000,31068,B
1.880000,29013,B
1.920000,43124,P
1.960000,35221,B
This first entry is the timestamp, then the packet size for the frame and the type. You can use Excel or any similar tool to generate a graph.
