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sandflow / regxmllib

Convert MXF to XML: RegXML (SMPTE ST 2001-1) tools and libraries
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Optionally read preface from Footer Partition #84

Closed thomasheritage closed 8 years ago

thomasheritage commented 8 years ago

Perhaps this is already possible? If files are not Closed and Complete then the Footer Metadata can be much more useful than the Header Metadata. Therefore it would be very useful to be able to choose to read the Preface from the Footer instead.

palemieux commented 8 years ago

Can this process be automatic, i.e. if the Header Partition is incomplete and/or open, then the Footer Partition is sought and assumed to be complete and closed?

thomasheritage commented 8 years ago

It's probably useful to be able to manually select any Header Metadata within the file (in any Partition) and convert it to Reg-XML (it could default to just using the Header Metadata in the Header Partition). However, also having an automated mode which chooses the most "useful" metadata based on closed/complete could also be of benefit.

palemieux commented 8 years ago

Is there an accepted XML structure to store Header Metadata dumped from multiple partitions?

thomasheritage commented 8 years ago

I'm not sure if anyone's tried to do that before. It might be easier and safer / less confusing just to have one XML file for each set of Header Metadata that was extracted from the MXF file. It would then be easier to, for example, diff them in order to compare instances of Header Metadata.