[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mxfdec: add timecode to metadata

[Matthieu Bouron]

2012/1/16 Tim Nicholson <nichot20 at yahoo.com>:
> Matthieu Bouron <matthieu.bouron at gmail.com> wrote:-
>
>
>> 2012/1/11 Matthieu Bouron <matthieu.bouron at gmail.com>:
>>>  Hi there,
>>>
>>>  Here is a patch to extract the starting timecode from mxf files.
>>>
>>>  Feel free to comment,
>>>  Matthieu
>>
>> ping
>>
>
> Without wishing to comment on the code, which is not my area of expertise.
> This works for me on *some* of my MXF sample files but not all.
>
> It seems fine on XDCAM-HD Clips, but not on the BBC's "Preservation Master"
> format. Which I know has timecode as "archive_mxf_info" from:-
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/bmxlib/home/Home/
>
> extracts it.
>

The starting timecode could be present in the structural metadata and
the system metadata. This patch only support extraction from
structural metadata; maybe this is why the timecode is not detected
from the BBC's "Preversation Master" files.
Some sample would help me determine this. Can you provide some ?
Thanks

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> Tim
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