Meridian, a 2016 Netflix release, is available for uncompressed download for engineers, production artists, or anyone else who wants to practice their media processing skills on studio production quality material. Many thanks are due to Netflix for releasing this title under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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The film is described as “cerebral, full of suspense, chilling, ominous.” I don’t know about the story, but those words certainly describe the process of obtaining and using this film’s downloadable media assets. It is released in multiple color renderings on two different sites, some versions in Interoperable Media Format (IMF) and other encodings wrapped in mp4 packages.
You know with a name like “Interoperable Media Format” that the IMF package is likely to present some barriers to actually access the elementary audio and video media. IMF adds a layer of packaging on top Material eXchange Format (MXF), which by itself is always a challenge to wrap and unwrap.
In this post we’ll enter the Meridian cave armed with only a flashlight and ffmpeg. When we emerge, we’ll have elementary stream files in hand and know what color rendering they belong to.
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