ffmpeg – How do I verify that the H264 video stream is encoded with a single slice per frame?

You can use ffmpeg (and grep) to do this.

Run

ffmpeg -i H264file -c copy -bsf:v trace_headers -f null - 2>&1 | grep first_mb_in_slice

This should print out lines of the form

[trace_headers @ 000002087b24c3c0] 8       first_mb_in_slice                     1 = 0
[trace_headers @ 000002087b24c3c0] 8       first_mb_in_slice     00000000101000001 = 320
[trace_headers @ 000002087b24c3c0] 8       first_mb_in_slice   0000000001010000001 = 640

If each frame is a single slice then ALL lines will have value 0 (1 = 0) for first_mb_in_slice. A non-zero value indicates sliced encoding.

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