SMPTE new archiving standard at DVinfo.net

Brian Drysdale · September 13th, 2014, 12:18 AM

The SMPTE has published a new archiving standard called AXF.

https://www.smpte.org/news-events/ne...t-axf-standard

Jack Zhang · September 13th, 2014, 02:21 AM

.zip has been around forever. Now every operating system knows how to unzip, but it can't preserve the filesystem and the default operating system implementation can't span. I can see they're trying to preserve the filesystem inside the AXF file, making it behave more like an ISO image or Disk clone image.

Spanning is pretty important, making it more like the best aspects of a .zip, .iso, and a .rar all in one.

September 13th, 2014, 12:18 AM	#1
Brian Drysdale Inner Circle Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Belfast, UK Posts: 6,152	SMPTE new archiving standard The SMPTE has published a new archiving standard called AXF. https://www.smpte.org/news-events/ne...t-axf-standard

September 13th, 2014, 02:21 AM	#2
Jack Zhang Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 3,053	Re: SMPTE new archiving standard .zip has been around forever. Now every operating system knows how to unzip, but it can't preserve the filesystem and the default operating system implementation can't span. I can see they're trying to preserve the filesystem inside the AXF file, making it behave more like an ISO image or Disk clone image. Spanning is pretty important, making it more like the best aspects of a .zip, .iso, and a .rar all in one.