Re: OMF import and export
Re: OMF import and export
- Subject: Re: OMF import and export
- From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:37:27 -0400
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Alex Weiss <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> this is only marginally related to Core Audio, so my apologies. Does anybody
> know if there is a library for reading and writing OMF files? I'm having a
> hard time finding anything online about the format. All I came up with is
> this: http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/Downloads/LSI/omfspec21.pdf
The format is effectively a closed specification, not because that
document doesn't exist (and oh, the irony of the URL), but because the
spec is generally incorrectly and/or incompletely implemented by
almost every attempt at an implementation.
Reaper has some open source code designed to read OMF which I adapted
for use in Ardour/Mixbus but I've been told that it tends to break
with rather a lot of actual OMF files from the few DAWs that support
the format. That was 8-10 months, so maybe the situation with the
codebase in Reaper is different now. The only people I actually know
have done a reasonable job on interpreting actual OMF files are the
developer(s) of AATranslator although the session converter now owned
by SSL (sorry, I forget its name) also probably does an OK job of it.
None of that also addresses the fact that the whole spec is just
awful, though not quite as awful as AAF. Nothing like file format
design by committee, especially a committee that uses a relational
database as their model of what a disk file is.
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