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Install mediaconch with Homebrew, apt, dnf

Conformance checker and technical metadata reporter. Version 25.04 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mediaconch

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install mediaconch

Debian stable package indexes · mediaconch · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install mediaconch

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · mediaconch · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

overview

Package summary

Conformance checker and technical metadata reporter

Commands and aliases

  • mediaconch

history

Project history and usage

MediaConch is MediaArea's open-source conformance checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer for preservation-level audiovisual files. It focuses on formats used in archives and memory institutions, especially Matroska, LPCM, and FFV1.

Project history

MediaConch was created by MediaArea, the team behind MediaInfo, and the official project page says it received funding from PREFORMA, co-funded by the European Commission FP7-ICT Programme. The GitHub repository description also identifies MediaConch as funded by PREFORMA.

The project was designed around a preservation workflow rather than a general media-player workflow: check implementation conformance, apply institution-specific policies, generate reports, and expose the same policy structure through CLI, GUI, and Web UI surfaces.

Adoption history

MediaConch's adoption is narrower than MediaInfo's but important in digital preservation circles. The official documentation frames it for memory institutions that need batch-level validation, policy exchange, and sidecar reports for audiovisual collections.

Package availability in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora reflects that specialist role: it is not a casual desktop codec tool, but a CLI-capable validator that archivists and preservation engineers can put into repeatable ingest and quality-control pipelines.

How it is used

Users create or import policy sets, run implementation and policy checks, and export reports in HTML, text, CSV, XML, sidecar metadata, or preservation-oriented formats. Its XML documentation connects MediaConch reports with MediaInfo XML, MediaTrace XML, and broader MediaArea XML reporting.

Why package nerds care

MediaConch matters to package maintainers because it packages institutional audiovisual validation into a reproducible command-line tool. Its dependency on MediaArea's codec and metadata knowledge makes it a practical companion to MediaInfo for archives that need policy-driven checks rather than simple file identification.

Timeline

  • 2014: Official MediaConch GitHub tags begin with 2014.12.29 and 2014.12.31.
  • 2015: Early public tag 2015.03.14 appears in the official repository.
  • 2025: MediaArea project page lists MediaConch 25.04 as the current release.

Related projects

  • MediaConch is part of the MediaArea family and relates directly to MediaInfo, MediaTrace, Matroska, FFV1, LPCM, and PREFORMA preservation tooling.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:media

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 5 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
mediaconchcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version25.04
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://mediaarea.net/MediaConchnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:mediaconch
Version25.04
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mediaconch
Homepagehttps://mediaarea.net/MediaConch
Repositoryhttps://github.com/MediaArea/MediaConch
Upstream docshttps://mediaarea.net/MediaConch
LicenseBSD-2-Clause
Source archivehttps://mediaarea.net/download/binary/mediaconch/25.04/MediaConch_CLI_25.04_GNU_FromSource.tar.bz2
Dependenciesjansson, libevent, libmediainfo, libzen, sqlite
Build dependenciespkgconf
Uses from macOScurl, libxml2, libxslt
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namemediaconch
Version Scheme0
Revision1
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

mediaconch 25.04-2

implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo apt install mediaconch
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 11 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mediaconch from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

mediaconch-gui 25.04-2

implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo apt install mediaconch-gui
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mediaconch
  • 17 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mediaconch-gui from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Ubuntu apt95%

mediaconch 23.10-1build3

implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo apt install mediaconch
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 11 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediaconch from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

mediaconch-gui 23.10-1build3

implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo apt install mediaconch-gui
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mediaconch
  • 16 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediaconch-gui from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

mediaconch 25.04-2.fc44

Most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files (CLI)

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo dnf install mediaconch
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediaconch
  • 13 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediaconch from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

mediaconch-gui 25.04-2.fc44

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (GUI)

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo dnf install mediaconch-gui
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediaconch
  • 20 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediaconch-gui from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

mediaconch-server 25.04-2.fc44

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (Server)

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

sudo dnf install mediaconch-server
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediaconch
  • 15 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediaconch
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediaconch-server from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • libeventRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • sqliteRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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  • mpckShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media, validation.
  • avimetaeditShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media, metadata, validation.
  • bwfmetaeditShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media, metadata, validation.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment