MediaConch

Implementation and policy checking
on FFV1, Matroska, LPCM (and more)

Jérôme Martinez, MediaArea

No Time To Wait
Vienna, November 2017

MediaArea

Open source software company focused on digital media analysis. We work (different levels of involvement) on:

• MediaInfo
  Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files
• MediaConch
  Implementation checker, policy checker, & reporter
• QCTools
  Helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files through use of audiovisual analytics and filtering
• BWF MetaEdit, AVI MetaEdit, MOV MetaEdit
  Embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata
• DV Analyzer
  Checking presence of technical errors in DV captures

What is MediaConch?

Implementation and Policy reporter

What is MediaConch?

Implementation report:

Policy report:

What is MediaConch?

General information about your files

What is MediaConch?

Inspect your files

What is MediaConch?

Policy editor

What is MediaConch?

Public policies

What is MediaConch?

Fixer

• Segment sizes in Matroska
• Matroska “bit flip” correction
• FFV1 “bit flip” correction
  

Integration

Archivematica is an integrated suite of open-source software tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model

MediaConch interfaces

• Graphical interface
• Web interface
• Command line
• Server (REST API)
• (Work in progress) a library (.dll/.so/.dylib)

CELLAR: IETF workgroup

• Open standards group
• Goal to IETF-standardize Matroska/FFV1/FLAC
• A lot of progress, especially with Matroska/EBML specs
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/cellar/charter/

And after PREFORMA sponsorship?

It depends on you!

• This is open source
• Driven by user requests
• Everyone can develop or sponsor a development
• Potential features:
  • Support of tests for your prefered format
    (MOV? MXF? JP2k? WAV?)
  • Support of other checkers
    (BWF MetaEdit? QCTools?)
  • Integration in your workflow
  • ...

Stay in touch

MediaArea: https://mediaarea.net, @MediaArea_net

MediaConch: https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch, @MediaConch

Jérôme Martinez: jerome@mediaarea.net

Sponsoring program: https://mediaarea.net/SupportUs

Slides: https://mediaarea.net/Events

License: CC BY