[FFmpeg-user] Storing scan-type/interlaced in MXF?

[Peter B.]

Hi Carl,

On 31/10/18 13:28, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> From a quick look, interlaced mxf is only supported for selected
> codecs (that support interlaced encoding), not for j2k 

Thanks for the quick-look-reply!
Interesting/good to know. Is this an MXF-specification thing or an
(ffmpeg) implementation thing?

Hm...
Might this be the reason why some institutions store J2K-lossless in MXF
as "field-as-frame" with double framerate?


> Are you maybe expecting an output file with field encoding? This is generally not supported in FFmpeg, neither for reading nor for writing.

What do you mean by "field encoding"?

The scenario here is as follows:
Source is uncompressed, interlaced NTSC and shall be stored as
J2K-lossless in MXF.
Therefore the intention of having the resulting MXF containing all the
right metadata to be aware of scan-type and field-order.


Thanks for everything,
Peter