$Id$ The asdcplib library is a set of objects that offer simplified access to files conforming to the sound and picture track file formats developed by the SMPTE Working Group DC28.20. This work was originally funded by Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI). Subsequent efforts have been funded by Deluxe Laboratories, Doremi Labs, CineCert LLC, Avica Technology and others. **The asdcplib project was originally housed on SourceForge. The project has moved to http://www.cinecert.com/asdcplib/ The project formerly depended upon the mxflib project. Because of its focus on covering the whole of the MXF specifications, mxflib is considerably larger and more complex that what I require for this application. For this reason I have created a dedicated MXF implementation that is now part of this library. Special thanks to Matt Beard and Oliver Morgan for their great work and support. Thanks also to the members of the SMPTE DC28.20 packaging ad-hoc group and the members of the MXF Interop Initiative for their encouragement and support. Special thanks to Jim Whittlesey and Howard Lukk at DCI for proposing and supporting this project. Design Notes This library is intended (but of course not limited) for use by developers of commercial D-Cinema products. It is designed to be easily integrated into a wide variety of development environments. Commercial users are strongly urged to use static linking (at least where you use this library) to prevent malicious in-field replacement of critical system modules. This recommendation should be considered wherever Open Source or Free software is being used in conjunction with critical security parameters, such as cryptographic keys. The author strives mightily to provide an API that is completely independent of operating system and other library dependencies, and which allows selective replacement of some modules for local needs. Specifically, the essence parsers and OpenSSL crypto functions can be replaced by linking to alternative implementations of the ASDCP:: objects which provide those services. AS_DCP.h contains the entire API. You do not need to read any of the other files, except maybe asdcp-test.cpp which contains detailed usage examples of each of the API's services. The KM_* files may be of interest for general development support, but may be ignored if all you want is simple AS-DCP support. Build Instructions On more-or-less POSIX systems (OS X, Linux, and BSD), GNU make and autotools are required to build asdcplib. The same configure script will also build this package on Windows machines with Cygwin and MinGW installed. For those Windows users who would prefer to build this natively, an "nmake" build file and instructions can be found in the win32 subdirectory. OpenSSL is also required, and the most recent version of v0.9.8 is recommended. See http://www.openssl.org/ for more information and download instructions. Optional support for writing Timed Text Track Files is supported by either Xerces-C or Expat. See http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/ or http://expat.sourceforge.net/ for source and build instructions. To configure and build, type './configure' followed by 'make'. There are several test targets on the POSIX side, but you need to assemble a set of test files to use them. I have tested this build on win32, Linux, OpenBSD, and Darwin platforms. Others may work as well. Utilities asdcp-test - Writes, reads and verifies AS-DCP (MXF) track files. asdcp-wrap - Writes AS-DCP (MXF) track files. asdcp-unwrap - Extracts essence from AS-DCP (MXF) track files. asdcp-info - Displays information about AS-DCP (MXF) track files. asdcp-util - Calculates digests and generates random numbers and UUIDs. kmfilegen - Writes and verifies large files using a platform- independent format. Use it to test issues related to large files. kmuuidgen, kmrandgen - generate UUID values and random numbers. wavesplit - Splits a WAVE file into two or more output files. Used to untangle incorrectly-paired DCDM sound files. blackwave - Write a WAVE file full of zeros, Used to make filler tracks (though you would be better off modifying asdcp-test if this is a common use case). j2c-test - Displays information about JP2K codestreams. Documentation The API documentation is mostly in AS_DCP.h. Read that file for a detailed description of the library's capabilities. Read asdcp-test.cpp for library usage examples. The command-line utilities all respond to -h. Change History 2012-03-06 - bug fixes, enhancements 1.9.45 o Removed ASDCP::Timestamp, all items that were of that class are now of class Kumu::Timestamp o Refactored Kumu::Timestamp to use KM_tai for internal representation (replaced public Y M D, h, m, s variables) o Refactored Kumu::Timestamp to use KM_tai for WIN32 builds o Added UTC offset awareness to Kumu::Timestamp o Replaced "long GetSecondsSinceEpoch(void) const" with "ui64_t GetCTime() const" o Corrected UL version segment in "7.1 DS" and "WTF" audio format labels (corresponds with publication of ST 429-2:2011). o Exposed MXF object interface (MXF.h, Metadata.h) via ASDCP MXFReader and MXFWriter classes. o Added UL values from ST 377-4:2012. >>>>NOTE: These are preliminary values, subject to change upon final publication of not only ST 377-4 but also the relevant registries. This is a good time to compare them to the standard and complain if you think they are wrong! o Added MCALabelSubDescriptor, AudioChannelLabelSubDescriptor, SoundfieldGroupLabelSubDescriptor, and GroupOfSoundfieldGroupsLabelSubDescriptor (from ST 377-4:2012) to Metadata.h o Changed some internals to make MXFWriter::OPAtomHeader() work correctly. o Split asdcp-test into several different programs to help relieve the impenetrable-list-of-arguments problem. asdcp-wrap, asdcp-unwrap and asdcp-info take the place of asdcp-test's -c, -x and -i options, respectively. asdcp-util contains the remaining functions. Note that asdcp-test is now DEPRECATED, new functionality and bug fixes will be aimed at the new tools. Also note that some options and calling conventions are different for the new tools as compared to asdcp-test. Please read the synopses and make sure you understand the new idioms. o asdcp-wrap has a new argument, -C