MEDIACONCH(1)

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

💖 MEDIACONCH(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the MEDIACONCH(1) manual page — yes that's the manual name, and yes you're gonna read all of it, it's important 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

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

MediaInfo-Gui — an implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files, but make it graphical 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

MediaConch is an extensible, open source software project and it is literally four things in one: an implementation checker, a policy checker, a reporter, and a fixer ✨

And who is it for? It targets preservation-level audiovisual files — specifically Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1) — for use in memory institutions 🏛️ (iykyk, the archive girlies know).

It gives you detailed and batch-level conformance checking through an adaptable and flexible application program interface, and you can reach that API from the command line, from a graphical user interface, or from a web-based shell. Three doors, same slay energy 🚪🚪🚪👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

ngl, MediaInfo supports the following options, and they are case-insensitive — so go off, type them however you want 🎀

  • --Help, -h — shows you the help, then dips out. That's it, that's the whole job ✨
  • --Help=Advanced, -ha — shows you the advanced help, then exits. for when the basic help just wasn't giving 🧚

🍓 Reporting Elements 🍓

  • --Mediaconch, -mc — outputs the MediaConch report (this is the default, bestie, it's already your main character). MediaConch contains a default verbosity of implementationChecks plus any policy checks you provide 💖
  • --Mediainfo, -mi — outputs the MediaInfo report 📋
  • --Mediatrace, -mt — outputs a trace of the file 🔍

👑 Policy Checker 👑

  • --Policy=PolicyFileName, -p PolicyFileName — applies the policy, which is an XSL or a Schematron. yes, you literally hand it the rulebook and it reads everyone to filth ✋

🌈 Output Formats 🌈

  • --Format=text, -ft — outputs in Text format (the default, iconic, no notes) 📝
  • --Format=xml, -fx — outputs in MediaInfo/MediaConch/MediaTrace XML format. > heads up bestie: this one gets changed to -fa if there's more than 1 tool or more than 1 file 👀
  • --Format=maxml, -fa — outputs in MediaArea XML format 💜
  • --Format=html, -fh — outputs the MediaConch report in HTML format 🎀
  • --Display=DisplayFileName, -d DisplayFileName — applies the display transformation, which is an XSL. glow-up transformation, but for your output 💫

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@debian.org> for the Debian system (but it may be used by others, she's generous like that 🫶).

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. periodt ✨

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

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was MediaConch 25.04, dated 2026-02-11 🎀 thanks for reading to the end, you're the real one 💖 bye bb 🦋

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