MOV to MXF using FFmpeg

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  • File used was MakeUp.mov, taken from http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=lpg40911&lc=en&cc=us&product=81685&dlc=
  • Used the following command to convert the file: ffmpeg -i MakeUp.mov -vcodec mpeg2video -qscale 1 -qmin 1 -intra -ar 48000 20051210-MakeUp.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 14955972 bytes 13460073 bytes
Duration 00:39 (FITS); 00:39.04 (FFmpeg) 00:39.37 (FFmpeg)
Bit rate 3040 kpb/s (FFmpeg) 2734 kbp/s
Streamcount imageStreams, audioStreams 2 (FFmpeg) 2 (FFmpeg)
FrameCount length
ImageWidth width 320 320 (FFmpeg)
ImageHeight height 240 240 (FFmpeg)
BitDepth bitDepth 24
colourModel
colourSpace yuv420p yuv420p
PAR (pixel aspect ratio)/DAR (display aspect ratio) aspectRatio 72:72/4:3 (FFmpeg) 1:1/4:3 (FFmpeg)
FrameRate frameRate 30 per second 29.97 (FFmpeg)
lossless No No
compressionRatio
Compression codec CompressorName: Photo-JPEG (FITS); mjpeg (FFmpeg) mpeg2video (FFmpeg)
interlace
metadata


Audio stream properties

Property Original Normalized
Codec raw (FITS); pcm_u8 (FFmpeg) pcm_s16le (FFmpeg)
Channels 1 1 (FFmpeg)
Bit rate 176 kbp/s (FFmpeg) 768 kbp/s (FFmpeg)
SampleRate 22050 HZ 48000 HZ
BitDepth AudioBitsPerSample: 8 (FITS); 16 (FFmpeg) 16 (FFmpeg)