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ELAN Preference File

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Summary

Name
ELAN Preference File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1544
Format type
Text (Structured)
Description
ELAN is a professional software tool to manually and semi-automatically annotate and transcribe audio or video recordings. It was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The .pfsx file contains preferences such as video size, video speed and zoom.
Note
PFSX-Schema for Version 1.1 (2010): http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/Prefs_v1.1.xsd
File extensions
pfsx
Submitted by
German National Library of Science and Technology
Developed by
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Supported by
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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Internal signatures

ELAN Preference File

Description
BOF magic bytes: <preferences * xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/Prefs_v EOF magic bytes: </preferences>.
Provenance
11/2023 (v.115)- Max-offset modified for BOF signature to allow for more exact signature identification. Internally researched

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
27
Max offset
30
Byte Sequence
3C707265666572656E636573*7873693A6E6F4E616D657370616365536368656D614C6F636174696F6E3D22687474703A2F2F7777772E6D70692E6E6C2F746F6F6C732F656C616E2F50726566735F76
Endianness
None
Min Frag Length
Absolute from EOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
3C2F707265666572656E6365733E0A
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V115

    Release date
    15 November 2023

    • Updated

      ELAN Preference File: Max-offset modified for the BOF signature to allow for more exact signature identification. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).

  • V100

    Release date
    16 December 2021

    • Added format

      ELAN Preference File: Full entry added. Submitted by German National Library of Science and Technology.

    • Added signature

      ELAN Preference File: Signature researched and samples provided by German National Library of Science and Technology.