MXF Practice and Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing
This paper presents three customer case studies as examples of MXF workflows being deployed in broadcast and production environments to date: Ciris in the Netherlands, FranceTelevision in France, and a sports broadcaster in Australia. For each of these sites, the reason why MXF was chosen, the technical aspects and complexities of the implementation of the MXF standard, its organizational impact, benefits of using the standard, and what interoperability issues remain are all examined. Finally, a new FPGA-based technology recently introduced by SGI, named RASC (reconfigurable application specific computing), is examined, as well as how this technology may benefit MXF workflows by accelerating digital processes such as file format conversions, data encryption, and transcoding while at the same time greatly simplifying facility design.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2006-07
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J16172