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 20,334,596 bytes 41,290,418 bytes
Duration 02:10 (approx) (FITS); 001:48.25 (FFmpeg)
Bit rate 1245 kb/s 1245 kb/s (FFmpeg)
Streamcount imageStreams, audioStreams 2 (FFmpeg) 2 (FFmpeg)
FrameCount length 3013 3013 (FFmpeg)
ImageWidth width 352
ImageHeight height 288 288 (FFmpeg)
BitDepth bitDepth 24
colourModel
colourSpace yuv420p yuv420p
PAR (pixel aspect ratio)/DAR (display aspect ratio) aspectRatio 4:3
FrameRate frameRate 25 per second 25 per second
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) 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)