MXF

• Official portal for the SMPTE MXF Implementers Group (SMPTE W25.10): http://www.smpte-mxf.org/
• Samples:
  • http://www.freemxf.org/samples/index.html
  • http://www.irt.de/IRT/mxf/files/index.php
  • http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/MXF/

MXF is a container used by the broadcasting industry.

MXF is also the official container for Digital Cinema Material. http://www.dcimovies.com/DCI_Digital_Cinema_System_Spec_v1.pdf (Mirrored)

Open source implementation can be found here: www.freemxf.org

FFmpeg implementation: mxf.c

More info can be found at http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/152 and http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000013.shtml#specs.

File structure

The file may start with up to 64k "garbage". Then follows a partition pack, given by the following byte sequence:

 byte 0-10     0x06, 0x0E, 0x2B, 0x34, 0x02, 0x05, 0x01, 0x01, 0x0D, 0x01, 0x02 (may not appear in the "garbage")
 byte 11       version (currently 0x01)
 byte 12       structure type (here 0x01 for partition)
 byte 13-15    depends on structure type