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The Astronomical Digital Video (ADV) Data Format

JOA 2020, Vol. 10, No. 3, Page 8

Author(s): Hristo Pavlov, Robert Anderson, Tony Barry, Dave Gault, Robin Glover, Stefan Meister, Andreas Schweizer

Abstract: The Astronomical Digital Video (ADV) data format has been around for about a decadenow and it has been used for astronomical video recording by the Astronomical Digital VideoSystem (ADVS), Genika and OccuRec, while Tangra has been the primary software for data reduction.With the recent developments in digital video and the increased use of digital video cameras a number of improvements have been made to the format and it has now become more widely available. ADV can now be used with the DVTI (Digital Video Time Inserter) system and it will be available in the upcoming release of SharpCap version 3.3. PyMovie recently added support for ADVdata reduction starting from version 2.6.9 and PyOTE from version 3.4.8. The quick addition of ADV support to these software packages was possible because of the available free and open sourcecross-platform C library AdvCore to read and write in ADV format and the wrappers in C# andPython. In this paper we provide more information about the recent development in ADV and also discuss the format and how it compares to other formats.