MediaConch Newsletter #6 – July 2016

Happy July From MediaArea.net!

Posted on: 4 July 2016

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New Release Notes

What’s new in MediaConch 16.06

Local GUI, Online, CLI, Server

  • HTML Report is more compact
  • Fixes and optimizations to Matroska parsing
  • Performance Improvement

Local GUI

  • Can create a policy from MediaInfo report
  • Revisited display window
  • Minor UI improvements/fixes on the main window

Online GUI

  • Can create a policy from MediaInfo report

Latest Downloads

Download MediaConch’s latest release or a daily build.

MediaConch now supports plugins including VeraPDF and DPFManager!

mediaconch_nl6

Upcoming Events

We are so excited about our upcoming conference in 2 weeks! Please join us 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.

We are almost at capacity, so make sure to 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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