Support for Canon XF-AVC video possible?

[JimFeeley]

Is it possible to get NeoFinder to display and play Canon XF-AVC video files as it does some other video formats?

I've added ffmpeg to NeoFinder as described here:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.7/n ... fmpeg.html

Files from a Sony camera (I believe a FS-7mkII), and from some other cameras show up with thumbnail images and can be played within NeoFinder. But the XF-AVC files I have (from a Canon C300mkII and C70) just show up with the VLC pylon icon. And VLC media player can play them when I click.

As I understand it (and I might have this wrong), VLC uses more than just ffmpeg to provide support for various video files. And Canon's XF-AVC files are MPEG AVC/h.264 packaged with an MXF wrapper.

Is there something I can do (or add to) NeoFinder to get it to play XF-AVC files within a NeoFinder library? Or am I just doing something wrong? Or could XF-AVC thumbnails and playback be added to future versions of NeoFinder?

Thanks!

[neo-admin]

What file format do they use, what video container?

Is that plain .mp4? Or another file name suffix?

Could you please provide us with a sample file?

Thank you very much!

[JimFeeley]

Thanks for your response! Sorry it took me a few days to follow up; busy week.

I don't know much more about the XF-AVC format beyond what I wrote: "Canon's XF-AVC files are MPEG AVC/h.264 packaged with an MXF wrapper." And googling around, I don't see much more info than that. A sample file name: A004C137_240216LF_CANON.MXF

Yes, I can provide a file. I don't have many short files, though. How can I get a nine-second 476MB file to you?

FTP? Google Drive, etc?

Best,

Jim

[neo-admin]

Hello,

ah, thanks, that is good to know!

If it uses the Sony MXF container format, you can teach NeoFinder that quickly either with the free ffmpeg plugin:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.7/n ... fmpeg.html

or using the latest Apple ProRes codecs:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/neofin ... ideos.html
Topic: Apple Pro Video codecs

Best,