MediaConch
Description
From the MediaConch website:
"MediaConch is an extensible, open source software project consisting of an implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer that targets preservation-level audiovisual files (specifically Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1)) for use in memory institutions, providing detailed and batch-level conformance checking via an adaptable and flexible application program interface accessible by the command line, a graphical user interface, or a web-based shell."
MediaConch is available as a GUI (graphical user interface), CLI (command line interface) or WebUI (web platform). A web-based demo of the tool can be found here. MediaConch is written in C++ and, for the web platform, PHP.
MediaConch can be used to create policies for any kind of media format, and is not limited to MKV/FFV1/LPCM.
MediaConch is part of a larger initiative called the PREFORMA Project, co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme. The project’s main aim is to address the challenge of implementing standardised file formats for preserving digital objects in the long term, giving memory institutions full control over the acceptance and management of preservation files into digital repositories. Through this program, MediaConch also uses two sister-tools for conformance checking: veraPDF for PDF validation and DPF Manager for TIFF validation.
User Experiences
- Nine interviews were conducted with eleven people on their use cases and workflows involving MediaConch, available here on the MediaArea blog.
- Public shared MediaConch policies
- Artefactual's Archivematica software workflow for MediaConch available here.
- A webinar explaining the Archivematica integration
- Video: MediaConch: Conformance checking for audiovisual files
- Daniel:
- MediaConch runs fast and the output of the implementation and policy checker is not extensive but consists of useful information.
- The tool for creating own policies provides a lot of options and cases but the usage of this tool is complex and presupposed detailed knowledge of the different file formats.
- The documentation for build MediaConch from source code under Windows is more than bad, because documentation it simply indicates to use Visual Studio.
Development Activity
All development activity is visible on GitHub: http://github.com/MediaArea/MediaConch/commits
Release Feed
Below the last 3 release feeds:
- 2015-03-15 15:52:10
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/26434703/2015.03.14 Design phase final report, Mar 2015]
- by JeromeMartinez
- 2014-12-31 20:04:13
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/26434703/2014.12.31 Design phase interim report, Dec 2014]
- by JeromeMartinez
- 2014-12-29 08:02:23
- [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/26434703/2014.12.29 2014.12.29]
- by dericed
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 commits:
- 2021-09-29 14:56:35
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d2a4b62ffbaf5475c5c3e82b3e6fc9883a6be592 Merge pull request #222 from g-maxime/master]
- by JeromeMartinez https://github.com/JeromeMartinez
- 2020-06-01 22:46:01
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0e7ffda53b1a626f0fc7e01fb5dae015b7300c1f Does not validate mkv attachments content against mkv rules]
- by g-maxime https://github.com/g-maxime
- 2018-01-02 12:33:56
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/d01bdb64529f6b0d009fd9e1275d896efebe2480 Merge pull request #205 from retokromer/patch-1]
- by JeromeMartinez https://github.com/JeromeMartinez
- 2018-01-02 12:18:44
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/52af1ecda3351b3d5d9040ea474e5667a0daeb53 fix typo]
- by retokromer https://github.com/retokromer
- 2017-07-30 07:23:54
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/eadf0740a2488cad39870edc152e1c1152e52d32 Merge pull request #197 from retokromer/patch-1]
- by JeromeMartinez https://github.com/JeromeMartinez