MXF is the most commonly used file format that is very popular in the digital camera, camcorders and other devices. But when you want to play these file to the supported file format you need to convert those files. MXF is not a video file format but in the real sense this is a container or wrapper that supports number of different streams of coded “essence”, this is also encoded with any variety of codecs, with the metadata wrapper and this describes that material contained within the MXF files.

MXF is a very famous file format and most of the digital camcorders record the videos in the MXF format, like Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 502, Panasonic P2 HD, Panasonic DVCPRO P2, Panasonic AVCCAM, HVX200, Canon XF300/XF305, and Sony PMW-EX1/EX3/800/VX10/350K etc for storing videos, audios and programmed data.