VLC h264 decoding

[RichardW]

im using live555 to connect to a camera using rtsp. I have reached the stage where i have a single h264 encoded frame however im not sure how to decode it. I did a bit of research and found that vlc uses a combination of live55 and ffmpeg's libavcodec. Since im on a windows machine using visual studio i havent been able to step through the code, the best i have achieved is visual inspection. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction of how VLC decodes its frames? Thanks