Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> added the comment:

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:59:37PM +0000, tbart wrote:
> I am not much of programmer, but may I ask why a proper *MXF* parser 
> would be a bad solution for parsing MXFs?

If you ask me: Because from a technical point even though some
may call it "MXF" they aren't. At least no more than a MP3 file
with ID3 metadata tags is a "ID3-file".

> It seems like adapting the mentioned patch to possibly not use indexes 
> - I understand that transport streams may not have proper indexes - 
> mandatorily would be a better solution.

Those are two completely independent things really (well, I think).
Thing is _I_ do not have much time to review this, plus I am not the
maintainer so I don't have the final say for the MXF-specific code anyway.

> This would be a large step into the professional video industry sector, 
> taking away market share of proprietary products (which I would really 
> appreciate, given the number of broken media parsers in commercial 
> products...)

This would be more helpful if you said what _exactly_ is hindering that
currently.
All MXF files I came about so far were playable with FFmpeg (though
clip-wrapped DV currently needs manual intervention).

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