ID3 Tag Validator Application User Manual
Release 1.8 Revision F
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Nielsen Confidential
Running the Validator Application
Basic Instructions
Validator is typically delivered as a Microsoft® Windows® console application. Follow
these steps to run it.
1.
Open a command prompt.
2.
Change directories to the location of the Nielsen ID3 Tag Validator executable.
3.
Determine which of the following file types you want to validate and type the
corresponding command that follows:
o
Use
–r
for a log file in the format generated by the Nielsen sample application
installed on your computer or mobile device or any other file that holds encrypted
Nielsen ID3 tag payloads (249 bytes, starting with “www.nielsen.com”):
NielsenId3TagValidator -r
<full path name of file holding the ID3 tags>
-p 6
Note
Validator locates and analyzes all ID3 Tags in the log file and ignores all text entries between
tags.
o
Use
–t
for a transport stream with Nielsen ID3 tags “muxed” into it:
NielsenId3TagValidator -t
<full path name of the transport stream>
-p 6
o
Use
–m
for a set of transport-stream segments, accompanied by an HLS m3u8
index file:
NielsenId3TagValidator -m
<full path name of the m3u8 file>
-p 6
o
Use
–dr
for a folder holding MPEG-DASH segments, where some of the
segments hold emsg boxes containing Nielsen ID3 tags. Use this call to
guarantee
that segments are processed in the correct order:
NielsenId3TagValidator -dr
<folder name>
-b
<base segment name>
-e
<extension>
-first
<index of first segment>
-last
<index of last segment>
-i
<index
interval between segments
> -p 6
Example:
Folder
C:\test
has ten MPEG-DASH segments with the following
file names:
test12
10
9tmp.m4s
test12209tmp.m4s
test12309tmp.m4s
test12409tmp.m4s
test12509tmp.m4s
test12609tmp.m4s
