MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation?

Anonymous Archivist writes "Media Matters, a technical consultancy specializing in archival audio and video material, recently completed a Mellon Foundation funded Digital Video Reformatting Preservation Project for the Dance Heritage Coalition. They conclude that MXF is the recommended container format, JPEG-2000 is the recommended encoding format and HDD is the recommended storage media. It's a very valuable series of experiments and offers a strong indication of where the archival preservation of analogue video is heading."

Comments

Recommended Storage Media

[Antonymous Flower]

Recommended Storage Media: Peer to Peer network.

Re:Recommended Storage Media

[fred911]

Along with the recommended exchange formant:

Multi RAR'ed 14mb archives of .BIN and .CUE files. Including the ever necessary .nfo files.

Re:Recommended Storage Media

[strider44]

every 14mb RAR will be shared except the last one.

Re:MXF?

[NoData]

It's a dirty, dirty acronym for among the foulest of slurs:

Motherchristfucker!

Which is what most people utter when they discover they have no way of decoding MXF.

first step

[same_old_story]

make their report available on a format other than a '.doc' file. it is known to change a lot and therefore not suitable for long term storage.

Paper

[FullMetalAlchemist]

Storing digital information on paper is feasible and lots of research efforts have been put into it.

Storing data on anything magnetic or optical is a bit worrysome. But then, it's not critical data so I guess it doesn't really matter.

Re:Paper

[RichardX]

>>it's not critical data so I guess it doesn't really matter

>Ouch, burn. There is nothing quite like the feeling of being told that your culture and history isn't important, and doesn't matter.

Oh, c'mon.. I mean, culture.. history.. it's hardly porn. Who cares if a few decades of historical records get wiped? Heck, just make 'em up again. Losing part of your porn collection though.. now that's a disaster.

Re:MXF?

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

MXF is the new, proprietary video compression method jointly sponsored by Microsoft and MTV. The new Most eXtreme Format is the video compression of choice for today's most hard-core, edgy, in-your-face artists with an attitude!

Ashlee Simpson says "When I'm performing for a half-time show of 10,000 screaming fans, I want to make sure that every bit of the live energy is caught perfectly! I give 100% for my fans and want to make sure they get every bit of my performance!"

MXF... in your FACE, Quicktime! This isn't your father's archive-quality lossless video compression algorithm!

(and keep an eye out for Ogg Vorbis 2 - by Mountain Dew!)

Recoverability depends on seekability

[tepples]

Because when you're archiving digital data, recoverability is paramount.

No, Viacom is paramount.

"What if all I had was a piece of this data, say, a hundred gigabytes from the middle of the disk? Could I turn that data into useful information?"

As long as your codec is seekable, this works. Motion JPEG is trivially seekable, consisting entirely of keyframes. Toss a redundant copy of the codec on the volume after every GB or so of video data, and recoverability is preserved.

.doc?

[b1t r0t]

For people concerned with the preservation of "data", they've sure picked an interesting format to write about it in.