AAF Engineering Meeting
17-19 October 2005

Avid Technology, Inc.
Building One
One Park West
Tewksbury, Massachusetts


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    Avid Technology, Inc.

    Agenda

    (Last updated 3 October 2023)

    Monday, October 17
    9:00 am - 6:00 pm

    1.

    Administration
        - IPR Policy Statement and sign-in sheet
        - Approval of minutes of previous meeting

    2. Review of action items from last meeting
    3. AAF v1.1/Edit Protocol compliance & testing
        - Product registration process
        - Template form
        - File analyser, test files
    3.1 OperationGroups as NestedScopes
    4. AAF v1.2 Specifications
    5. AAF v1.2 SDK
    5.1 Streams
        - Required behavior of existing APIs for MXF and
           non-MXF cases
        - Mapping of AAF streams to MXF streams
        - MXF specific stream APIs
        - Deducing MXF essence container labels from
           existing AAF metadata
    5.2 SMPTE 410M Generic Streams

    Tuesday, October 18th
    9:00 am - 6:00 pm

    6.

    AAF v1.2 SDK (continued)

    6.1 Status of sorted meta-dictionary
        - Name changes & aliases
    6.2 Dictionary structure
        - in KLV
        - in Structured Storage
        - in AAF-XML
    6.3 PID mapping
        - supporting primer in KLV files
        - supporting built-in property definitions with
           dynamic PIDs
        - PID number spaces
    6.3.1 Multiple dictionaries beyond AAF v1.2
    6.4 Categorizing non-strong references
    6.5 Multiple Descriptor & codecs for interleaved essence
    6.5.1 Format Specifiers
        - Should they be cleaned up, and auto-generated?
    6.6 MultifileLocator
    6.7 Conditional properties

    Wednesday, October 19
    9:00 am - 2:00 pm

    7.

    AAF v1.1 SDK maintenance release
        - Recent issues:
        - Reading set/vector of records
        - Which fixes to include
        - General policy for maintenance releases
           between major releases

    8. General toolkit issues
        - Maintaining toolkit compatibility
        - Compile time
        - Run-time & module tests
        - Type tests
        - IAAFDictionary2 divergence
    9. DMS-1 in AAF/MXF
    10. AAF Developer tasks
    11. AAF v1.3
    11.1 AAF-XML
        - Status and follow-up of items raised at last
           meeting
        - SMPTE Reg-XML Spec
    11.2 Subtitles
        - Specification
        - Implementation
        - Test transfers
    12. Future meetings
    13. AOB
     
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