https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/ MediaConch updates feed en-us Mon, 05 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000 Add JSON output for MediaConch reports
Force ParseSpeed to 1 when fixer is used
SimpleDisplay: Hide non-relevants errors for 'or' policies]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 05 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-25.04 Add fields compare in policy checker
Add 608/708 captions detection options
Remove Matroska related errors with new Matroska block additions
Supported platforms: minimum macOS version is now 10.13 (too much effort needed for building for older versions :( )
Supported platforms: this is the last version compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, Debian 10, Mageia 8]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-24.06 Fix behavior of occurence parameter in policy checker]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-23.10 Small update of USAC/xHE-AAC conformance checker]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-23.07 Verbose USAC/xHE-AAC conformance checker
New field Audio_Channels_Total for policies]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-23.06 GUI: Fix parse speed option not applied to dropped files
Add conformance errors description to simple/text displays
Policy XML file: Fix behavior when operator attribute is missing]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-23.03 Basic USAC/xHE-AAC conformance checker focused on IOD and sampling rate, more to come
GUI: Support custom parse speed option
Policy creation: Add Warning and Info severity levels in addition to Error
Policy creation: 'all' or 'any' keywords for occurrence field]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-22.09 Dedicated package for full online (no need to upload the file) policy checker in the web browser (technology preview)
Policy checker can handle time code comparison, including less than and greater than
IMSC1 implementation checker
Policy creation from a MediaInfo report includes the extra (not common to several formats) fields
Policy creation from a MediaInfo report includes several forms of some fields
Parsing speed is now the MediaInfo library default (use --ParseSpeed=0 for getting back the previous behavior)
Report result cache is cleared when a new version of the tool is installed (including development snapshots)
Does not validate Matroska attachments content against Matroska rules
More platforms supported, including Amazon Lambda (x86_64 and ARM)
Windows 7+, macOS 10.10+, RHEL/CentOS 7+, SLE 12+, Debian 9+, Ubuntu 18.04+, Fedora 34+]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 31 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-22.03 https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-18.03.2 https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-18.03.1 x I210, FFV1: remove sar_den test must be 0 if sar_num is 0
x Do not apply policies to attachments
x Print error if data directory isn't writable And polices can be applied on fields provided by new MediaInfo library:
+ AV1: support of AOmedia AV1 based on latest specifications draft, raw (OBU) and in MKV
+ DPX: endianness, packing mode, compression mode
+ MXF: detection and parsing of ProRes (SMPTE RDD 44)
+ MXF: HDR metadata support
+ AVC: add consumer camera recording date/time
+ AVC: add consumer camera model name and iris F number
+ JPEG: ICC parsing, display of ICC color space
+ MediaInfo JSON output
x colour description: trying (again!) to have more coherent labeling
x AAC: SBR parsing issue with 3+ channel streams, with sometimes false-positive PS detection
x DPX: some elements in trace were wrongly displayed (wrong endianness)
+ License change]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-18.03 Support of external time code tracks (.qtc) in MOV
Support of file names >64 chars long or non ASCII for referenced files in MOV
JPEG 2000: Support of IMF profiles
Fixed wrong color range info Matroska
I630, "Input is not proper UTF-8" message with some MOV files]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.12 Text and EBUCore 1.8 (XML and JSON) reports available for download in MediaInfo display
Improved Matroska video frame rate detection
Support of BWF (bext) loudness info
Support of MOV HDR metadata
Support of PCM endianness in Matroska files
Several minor fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.11 slice_h
Clarifcation about license of some third party library]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.08 MediaConch is now directly integrated in Fedora repository
CLI was sometimes not responding with -f option]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.07 Internal database viewer
Policy column in checker was sometimes displaying "fail" even if test was passing
Ubuntu 17.04 packages
More Matroska checks
More detailed FFV1 errors
See https://github.com/MediaArea/groundtruth/blob/master/matroska/README.md for more information]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Fri, 30 Jun 2017 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.06 Use OS native dialogs instead of those from Qt
Display login status in settings page and allow to logout
Fixed broken XML output display
add FFV1-VALID-VERSION, EBML-ELEMENT-VALID-RANGE, NO-JUNK-IN-FIXEDSIZE-MATROSKA, EBML-ELEM-UNKNOWN-SIZE tests
deprecate MKV-VALID-BOOLEANS test
fixes to MKV-NUMERICAL-TAG test]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.05 Was sometimes displaying "Bit depth: Bit0" when bit depth is unknown in Matroska
FFV1 PixelAspectRatio was an integer, switched to 3-digit rational
Several small bug fixes and small performance optimizations]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 04 May 2017 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.04 Reduce size of Matroska trace
Few small FFV1 parsing improvements
Checker: js refactoring, improve display of results, performance improvements
Several small bug fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.03 Fix incorrect namespaces in schemaLocation (Thanks to kimec)
Report refactoring
Flipping between pages removed
Several minor FFV1 related bug fixed
Support of V_FFV1 codec identifier in Matroska
Fix Qt 5.7+ webengine support]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.02 New display templates "Simple" and "CSV"
Support of newest version of DPFManager (TIFF plugin) and VeraPDF (PDF plugin)
Store implementation report in database (no need to run it again at relaunch)
Policy editor: option for creating policy from a file
Policy editor: split between Profile and Level
Checker page: jump to the page containing the file to analyze
Checker page: scroll to the top of the results when page is changed
Checker page: add reload analyze button (force analyze)
Checker page: reduce font size of jstree MediaInfo and MediaTrace
Several small bug fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-17.01 Import policies from MediaConchOnline
UI improvements
Better handling of errors
Fix adding 100+ files for analyze
Fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.12 MediaTrace optimization for Matroska
Fixed parsing of FFV1 v0/v1
Minor UI fixes
Improve support of plugins]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.11 Public policies page
Handle latest versions of VeraPDF and DPF Manager
FFmpeg plugin
Watch folder plugin
Fixer (see https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/fixity.html )
Several minor fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.10 Update example policies and displays
New policy editor to build complex policies
Policy rules can use MediaTrace
Handling of FFV1 16-bit bitdepth (YUV and RGB)
Support of Matroska FieldOrder, MatrixCoefficients, BitsPerChannel, Range, TransferCharacteristics, Primaries new elements
Stream count policy test (in General section)]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.09 Checker : remove a node is not saved
Checker : fix handling of files with special chars
Add ctrl-q shortcut to quit
Better handling of user path]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 31 Aug 2016 07:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.08 Minor fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.07 Revisited HTML report, more compact and with a summary per test
Revisited Display window
Minor UI fixes on the main window
Matroska files with CodecPrivate element before CodecID element where not always correctly parsed
Performance improvements]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.06 Improved Matroska tests
Improved HTML display
FFV1 parsing speed improvement
Updated settings display
Remember last policy and display directories
List of values for several elements in the policy editor
Option for applying a policy to all open files
Code refactoring of the user interface
Minor UI fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Tue, 31 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.05 Checker page new design, based on MediaConchOnline one
Add some settings (default policy, default display, default path for file open)
Remember the last policy used, the last display used, the last path used
FFV1: display of the trace of the slice header
Check a directory recursively
Fix: display correctly information even if the file disappeared (renamed / not accessible)
Minor UI fixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.04 Verbosity selection
Improved free text editor
Bugfixes]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.03 GUI usage is saved and restored when it is restarted
Dynamic selection of the policy and the display format in the policy viewer
Dynamic selection of the display format in the implementation viewer
CAVPP access and preservation policy sets
Update of implementation checker tests, including some FFV1 checks
Expanded REST API of the server]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.02 Improved reports
Verbosity option
MediaConch server, with a REST API
MediaConch CLI and GUI can communicate with MediaConch server
Support of Qt 5.6 (QtWebKit dependancy is replaced by Qt QtWebEngine dependancy)
Matroska: CRC-32 validation
Matroska: support of padding/junk at the start of a segment
Matroska: trace is activated for all elements (but report is still based on the first element met)
Matroska: add an intermediate level in the trace for the raw stream parser
Visual Studio 2015 project files]]> https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/download.html Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:00:00 +0000 MediaConch-16.01