How do I install & use h264bitstream?

[markfilipak]

Sorry if this is the wrong place. I searched and this is all I found.

h264bitstream is a library, right?
Can you recommend an application that uses it to display to me the headers and values of AVC (H.264) videos?
How do I install h264bitstream? My attempt follows:

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mark@mark-VirtualBox:~$ autoreconf -i
autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required
mark@mark-VirtualBox:~$

[aizvorski]

You're on the right track - just need to run autoreconf -i inside this project's directory. Something like this should work

git clone https://github.com/aizvorski/h264bitstream
cd h264bitstream
autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make

If that works, you can then just run the included application h264_analyze