MediaConch Newsletter #5 – June 2016

Happy Summer From MediaArea.net!

Posted on: 6 June 2016

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New Release Notes

What’s new in MediaConch 16.05

Local GUI, Online, CLI, Server

  • MediaConch XML format v0.2
  • Improved Matroska tests
  • Improved HTML display
  • FFV1 parsing speed improvement

Local GUI

  • Option for applying a policy to all open files
  • Lists of values for several elements in the policy editor
  • Minor UI improvements/fixes

Online GUI

  • Option for applying a policy to all open files
  • User settings: default policy, default display, default verbosity
  • Minor UI improvements/fixes

 

Latest Downloads

Download MediaConch’s latest release from PREFORMA Open Source Portal or a daily build from MediaConch website.

MediaConch now supports plugins including VeraPDF and DPFManager!

 

Upcoming Events

Join us for our pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait! A free workshop for audiovisual archivists, developers, and open standards working groups from July 18th – 20th hosted by the Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea.net.

Register Here!

 

The MediaConch project and this symposium has received funding from PREFORMA, co-funded by the European Commission under it’s FP7-ICT Programme.

 

Feedback

MediaArea is eager to build a community of collaborators and testers to integrate the software in their workflows and participate in usability testing. Please contact us if you’d like to be involved!

 

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