Evaluate the relevance of mat2 wrt. the USA Library of Congress most used formats

There is a really nice paper (local mirror) about the most used fileformats at the USA's Library of Congress. We should take a look at it, and implement formats used there but not supported by mat2.

It boils down to:

  • jp2
  • tif
  • jpg
  • xml - we can't really support it
  • pdf
  • txt
  • gif
  • gz
  • i41
  • mxf
  • mpg
  • wav
  • mov
  • iso
  • dv
  • gz
  • zip
  • rar - python's library to handle this format, rarfile, doesn't provide enough control to remove all the metadata.
  • tar
Edited by jvoisin