I did a quick review. I've adapted and updated my MLVapp repo with the updates from cr2hdr command line utility. The only missing feature is noise computation. Indeed a CR2 (digital still) file seems to contain some special rows/columns of black bars to measure noise, it does not exist in a video clip because of the crop I guess.
I'll do a more accurate analysis of the a1ex code to check if all is up2date.