MPEG-1 to MXF using FFmpeg

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• File used was CLIP07.MPG ("Animal Handling"), taken from http://www.interniche.org/video_download.htm)
• Used the following command to convert the file: ffmpeg -i CLIP07.MPG -b 1245000 -ar 48000 CLIP07.mxf
• Note: FITS tools don't recognize the MXF format and only generate a small amount of generic file metadata as a result. In addition, some of the elements that are considered significant properties are not extracted by FITS for the original file. Therefore some of the metadata in these tables are taken from the FFmpeg metadata that were generated during conversion. These are indicated by FFmpeg in brackets next to the value.

File/video stream properties

Property	Significant property name	Original	Normalized
FileSize		20334596 bytes	41290418 bytes
Duration		02:10 (approx) (FITS); 001:48.25 (FFmpeg)	001:48.25 (FFmpeg)
Bit rate		1245 kb/s	1245 kb/s (FFmpeg)
Streamcount	imageStreams, audioStreams	2 (FFmpeg)	2 (FFmpeg)
FrameCount	length	2706 (FFmpeg)	2706 (FFmpeg)
ImageWidth	width	352	352 (FFmpeg)
ImageHeight	height	288	288 (FFmpeg)
BitDepth	bitDepth
	colourModel
	colourSpace	yuv420p	yuv420p
PAR (pixel aspect ratio)/DAR (display aspect ratio)	aspectRatio	4:3 (FITS); PAR 178:163 DAR 1958:1467 (FFmpeg)	PAR 12:11 DAR v:3 (FFmpeg)
FrameRate	frameRate	25 per second (FFmpeg)	25 per second (FFmpeg)
	lossless	No	No
	compressionRatio
Compression	codec	mpeg1video (FFmpeg)	mpeg2video (FFmpeg)
	interlace
	metadata

Audio stream properties

Property	Original	Normalized
Codec	MPEG 1 Audio, Layer 2 (MP2) (FFMpeg)	pcm_s16le (FFmpeg)
Channels	2 (FFmpeg)	2 (FFmpeg)
Bit rate	224 kpb/s (FFmpeg)	1536 kpb/s (FFmpeg)
SampleRate	44100 HZ (FFmpeg)	48000 HZ (FFmpeg)
BitDepth	16 (FFmpeg)	16 (FFmpeg)