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Format

Material Exchange Format

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Summary

Name
Material Exchange Format
Version
Operational Pattern 2a
Identifiers
  • MIME: application/mxf
  • PUID: fmt/785
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. OP2a is intended to meet the requirements of acquisition, storage and interchange applications that are satisfied by a play-list of individual items of content packaged in two or more essence containers each of the same type.
File extensions
mxf
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

MXF OP2a

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}060E2B34040101010D0102010201
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V83

    Release date
    17 December 2015

    Material Exchange Format Operational Pattern 2a: Full entry added. MXF now has multiple PRONOM entries.