title: Trying to determine h.264 profile & level pragmatically
body: <p>Ideally the solution would be in python and cross platform, but that's probably not too likely, so all I require is it work in linux, and I can use a c extension to interface w/python if necessary. I see there is a python binding for ffmpeg which I was thinking about using, however I can't figure out how to determine the profile and level as it is, with fmmpeg or anything else, much less do it pragmatically. Google is not much help on the matter either. </p>
  
  <p>I've been able to determine what features I'd be looking for if I needed to determine the profile and levels manually then I can do that, but then that leads to the question, can ffmpeg then determine if the video was encoded with that feature set? I guess what I'm wondering to that effect is, is it perhaps not possible to fully determine the level and specific profile after encoding? I would think you'd have to know in order to decode it, but maybe not; that would explain why I can't find any information on it. I've been toying with this on and off for awhile, but recently decided to consider a project I'd been thinking about, but this is one of this big things holding me back.</p>