MediaConch

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 interface.
Version 24.06
Other versions (packaging, OS, interface...) are also available (Microsoft Windows macOS Debian Ubuntu Linux Mint RedHat Entreprise Linux CentOS Fedora openSUSE ArchLinux Flatpak)
See ChangeLog or very latest snapshots
You can also use MediaConchOnline to test MediaConch without installing any software on your computer.
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Project Overview

MediaConch is currently being developed by the MediaArea team, notable for the creation of open source media checker software, MediaInfo. Furthermore, the MediaArea team is dedicated to the further development of the standardization of the Matroska and FFV1 formats to ensure their longevity as a recommended digital preservation file format.

Licensing

All software and source code developed by MediaArea is under a BSD-2-Clause license.

All open source digital assets for the software developed by MediaArea is under Creative Commons license attribution 4.0 International (CC BY v4.0). All assets will exist in open file formats within an open platform (an open standard as defined in the European Interoperability Framework for Pan-European eGovernment Service (version 1.0 2004)).

Funding

This project has received funding from PREFORMA, co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme.
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