Ingex

Ingex is an open-source (GPL) suite of software for the digital capture of audio and video data, without the need for traditional audio or video tape or cassettes.[1][2] Serial digital interface (SDI) capture is supported, as well as real-time transcoding (with MXF).[1] Portions of the software suite also act as a network file server for media files, as well as archiving to LTO-3 data tape.[1] Audio and video media files can also be stored on USB hard drives or Network Attached Storage.[3] The software is heavily used by the BBC, and was developed by the BBC Research Laboratory.[3]

Some of the early production projects which have used Ingex include a Foo Fighters music video, and the BBC television series Dragons' Den.[3]

Features

The different software products in the suite support:[1]

Media Harmony[4] is a module for Samba Virtual file system (VFS). This allows editing clients, such as Avid, to use low-cost commodity storage for video and media files.

Ingex Studio provides studio-style recoding, capture, transcode, and MXF wrapping for multiple cameras, also known as multi-camera tapeless recording.[5] The software runs on commodity PC hardware and SDI IO cards. The media can then be edited by MXF-based editors, for example, Avid Media Composer.

Supported formats

Currently supported standard-definition (SD) codecs are:[1]

Supported high-definition (HD) codecs are:[1]

libMXF supports:[6]

MediaHarmony supports:[4]

Ingex archive supports:[7]

Metadata:

Supported operating systems

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Ingex". Retrieved 2009-08-24.
  2. "Fallstudie: Die BBC und ihr Projekt Ingex" (in German). Germany: Linux Magazine. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
  3. 1 2 3 Rodney Gedda (2008-01-29). "BBC moves Linux into TV production". UK: Computerworld. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
  4. 1 2 http://ingex.sourceforge.net/MediaHarmony/
  5. 1 2 http://ingex.sourceforge.net/studio/
  6. 1 2 http://ingex.sourceforge.net/libMXF/
  7. http://ingex.sourceforge.net/archive/
  8. Stuart Finlayson (2008-01-18). "The MXF files". Australia: Broadcast and Media. Retrieved 2009-08-24.

External links

Project Pages:

Whitepapers:

Case studies:

From the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR), a project of the European Commission's IDABC project:

See also

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