[gst-devel] status of AAF support in gstreamer?

[Yves De Muyter]

Ronald,

MXF is mostly used in the post-production industry, avid etc.
The new file-based camera disks from Sony, JVC, panasonic etc use
this format. It's not that widely accepted yet (avid doesn't
support it natively yet, they supply a conversion tool).

Having MXF in gstreamer would be a very good idea, it would be
accepted and used very fast by automation companies.
Having this avid opensource HD codec in gstreamer might also be a good idea:

http://www.avid.com/dnxhd/index.asp?pageElement=HDproduct

-Yves

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 04:29:37PM +0200, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> yeah, me again. ;).
> 
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 15:30, Jeremy Gwinnup wrote: 
> > I have a quick question: Has anyone been working on gstreamer support
> > for the "Advanced Authoring Format" (AAF) - see
> > http://www.aafassociation.org
> > 
> > It appears to be a container format, similar to .avi or Matroska.
> 
> I just got the specs for MXF (I want to write a MXF demuxer at some
> point), and waddayaknow, MXF is a subset of AAF (EG41, p. 3/7/...). So,
> aren't you looking for an actual MXF demuxer?
> 
> Now, we don't have a MXF demuxer yet, neither do we have any reason to
> actually have one except for it being commercially interesting (hey,
> let's just get to the point). No single movie on kazaa or whatever place
> you get your movies from is in the MXF format. However, it's used a lot
> in the industry.
> 
> I'm going to write a MXF demuxer eventually, currently purely out of
> interest. Therefore, I don't think I'll spend a considerable amount of
> time on it unless I've got a good reason to. Community request is one
> such reason, and there's other ways. It's remarkably similar to
> Matroska, so it won't be hard for me to write it once I know the
> details, I can probably borrow most low-level code from ebmlread. For
> now, I'm still reading docs, though, so it won't be ready tomorrow.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> PS where do I find MXF sample files?
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal
> Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us
> Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more
> http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl
> _______________________________________________
> gstreamer-devel mailing list
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel