AVI to MXF using FFmpeg

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• File used was sample_1238959806.avi, taken from http://www.filefront.com/13539232/sample.avi/)
• Used the following command to convert the file: ffmpeg -i sample_1238959806.avi -b 1283000 sample_1238959806.mpg
• Note: FITS tools don't recognize the MXF format and only generate a small amount of generic file metadata as a result

File/video stream properties

Property	Significant property name	Original	Normalized
FileSize		19337814	46588606
Duration		00:02:00:52 (from ffmpeg log file)	00:02:00:52 (from ffmpeg log file)
Streamcount	imageStreams, audioStreams	2 (from ffmpeg log file)	2 (from ffmpeg log file)
FrameCount	length	3013	3013 (from ffmpeg log file)
ImageWidth	width	384	384 (from ffmpeg log file)
ImageHeight	height	288	288 (from ffmpeg log file)
BitDepth	bitDepth	24
	colourModel
	colourSpace
AspectRatio	pixelAspectRatio (I'm assuming this is the same field but not sure)		1:1
FrameRate	frameRate	25 fps	Not clear: error message in ffmpeg: Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
	lossless	No	No
	compressionRatio
Compression	codec	DivX MS-MPEG-4 Version 3	MPEG-2
	interlace
	metadata

Audio stream properties

Property	Original	Normalized
Codec	MPEG 1 Audio, Layer 3 (MP3)	pcm_s16le (from ffmpeg log file)
Channels	2	2
Bitrate	320 kpb/s	1538 kpb/s
SampleRate	48000 HZ	48000 HZ
BitDepth	16 (from ffmpeg log file)	16 (from ffmpeg log file)