[Avid-L2] Re: Anyway to preview MXF files without MC?

Looks like I've always used it on regular OP1a files, instead of AVID-style OP-Atom files. Just tried it out here and failed to load any AVID MXF files.

Apologies for the misleading info.

Cheers,
Tim

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Bouke" <bouke@...> wrote:
>
> tested VLC on windows, but does not work for me for Avid media.
> (neither does FFplay)
> what version / platform are you using?
>
> Bouke
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ponglest" <tim.harris@...>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:39 AM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Anyway to preview MXF files without MC?
>
>
> If you just want to peak at the video, then the Video Lan Client (VLC) can
> playback MXF files. I've used this for XDCAM and other MPEG-2 files in the
> past. http://www.videolan.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "pierrehaberer" <ph@> wrote:
> >
> > I did a quick search but couldn't find anything useful. So here's my
> > question to the Avid-L folks: is there a way to open MXF files without the
> > Avid?
> > Often, we store hard-drives with media from current and older projects and
> > it would be great to be able to see what's on those drives without having
> > to plug them on the Avid machine. Any software out there that can do that?
> > Thanks, Pierre
> >
>

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