MEDIACONCH-GUI(1)

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version 25.04 · 6 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MEDIACONCH-GUI — the manual page, but make it bestie-coded 💖

okay so first things first, this is the MEDIACONCH-GUI manual page, living in section 1 of the manual (that's the User Commands girlies, we love her). Buckle up buttercup, we're about to get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

MediaConch — implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

MediaInfo-Gui — implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files (graphical utility)

no cap, that's the whole name section. two icon behavior. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mediaconch [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
mediaconch-gui [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]

literally just: throw some options at her, then throw some filenames at her. she eats. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so MediaConch is an extensible, open source software project — and bestie, "extensible" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence. She's a whole package: an implementation checker, a policy checker, a reporter, and a fixer. Four jobs, zero complaints, main character energy fr fr.

And who is she serving? The preservation-level audiovisual files girlies. Specifically she's targeting Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM), and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1) — for use in memory institutions. She's giving detailed, batch-level conformance checking through an adaptable and flexible application program interface that you can reach via the command line, a graphical user interface, or a web-based shell. three doors, same queen. ✨

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

MediaInfo supports the following case-insensitive options, so like. don't stress about caps, she's not gonna read you for it. 🫶

  • --Help, -h — Display help and exit. the classic "hello, what are you" move.
  • --Help=Advanced, -ha — Display the advanced help and exit. for when you're ready to be humbled. 😭

🍓 Reporting Elements 🍓

  • --Mediaconch, -mc — Output MediaConch report (default). she's the default for a reason, bestie.
    • (MediaConch contains default verbosity of implementationChecks plus any provided policy checks.)
  • --Mediainfo, -mi — Output MediaInfo report.
  • --Mediatrace, -mt — Output a trace of the file.

💜 Policy Checker 💜

  • --Policy=PolicyFileName, -p PolicyFileName — Apply the policy (XSL or Schematron). yes ma'am, hand her the receipts. 📜

🧚 Output Formats 🧚

  • --Format=text, -ft — Output in Text format (default).
  • --Format=xml, -fx — Output in MediaInfo/MediaConch/MediaTrace XML format (changed to -fa if there are more than 1 tool or more than 1 file). okay so she'll switch up on you mid-request, that's just her being considerate actually.
  • --Format=maxml, -fa — Output in MediaArea XML format.
  • --Format=html, -fh — Output MediaConch report in HTML format. pretty output for pretty people. 💅
  • --Display=DisplayFileName, -d DisplayFileName — Apply the display transformation (XSL).
fr fr that's every single one. don't skip any of them, they're all doing their lil job. 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permissions is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, or the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

and that's the whole thing!! this page is from MediaConch 25.04, dated 2026-02-11 — go forth and check your media files, you absolute icon. slay, bye!! 💖🎀✨🦋

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