Proposal: completely replace the old raw format
Created originally on Bitbucket by dmilligan (David Milligan)
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=13152.msg161639#msg161639
Here are the issues I have with the RAW format in it's current form:
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The file extension should not be .RAW (this is way too generic, and users think they can open it with something like photoshop), it should be something unique
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File header information and metadata should be stored at the beginning of the file, not at the end
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There should be more metadata than is currently provided (at the very least, camera model, ML version, etc.)
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There should be header information in every file if it is split into chunks
Turns out it's not that hard to modify raw_rec to output valid MLV files without add any extra overhead