The launch of the MXL project under the Linux Foundation looks to provide a pivotal shift in how media workflows operate, solving fundamental inefficiencies and incompatibilities that have long plagued digital media infrastructure.
Peter Brightwell, Lead R&D Engineer at the BBC, contextualises the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) project within the broader evolution of software-based production. “It’s come from the EBU’s Dynamic Media Facility initiative,” he says. “Over the last months, we’ve increasingly concentrated on the more immediate challenges that are blockers for the wider vision of a sort of all-software-based live production.”
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