8 D-lOand D-ll in MXF

Jim Wilkinson

 

This chapter introduces the reader to two mappings of the content from widely used VTR tape formats to MXF files. The first half of the chapter introduces those parts of the mapping that are common to both formats. The second half defines the details of the mappings for the type D-10 and type D-ll individually.

Introduction to the Type D-10 and D-ll Formats

The specification for the type D-10 format is defined by a suite of SMPTE standards The type D-10 uses MPEG-2 422P@ML video compression constrained to operate with intra-frame coding operating at data rates of 30, 40 and 50 Mbps. The audio recording offers four channels at 24-bit resolution or eight channels at 16-bit resolution. The type D-10 format is ...

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