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Format

Material Exchange Format

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Summary

Name
Material Exchange Format
Version
Operational Pattern 1a
Identifiers
  • MIME: application/mxf
  • PUID: fmt/200
Format type
Video
Description
MXF is a media container format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file. MXF allows for different degrees of complexity within the wrapper, which are standardised and defined as Operational Patterns, and this may be a consideration for an institution considering preserving the format, hence the separation of these Operational Patterns into separate PUIDs. OP1a is intended to meet the requirements of acquisition, storage and interchange applications that are satisfied by a single item of content packaged in a single essence container.
File extensions
mxf
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

MXF OP1a

Note
Header ..+4.......... then Operational Pattern Label ..+4..........

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
060E2B34020501010D0102010102{70}060E2B34040101010D0102010101
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V83

    Release date
    17 December 2015

    Material Exchange Format Operational Pattern 1a: Adjusted description and changed identification to OP1a only - MXF now has multiple PRONOM entries.

  • Added in V67

    Release date
    26 February 2013

    Material Exchange Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.