MediaArea is an open source software company focused on digital media analysis. We develop and support tools that aid developers in integrating digital media file investigation into their work.

• Presented by David Rice of CUNY TV. Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation (QC Tools) is an initiative to develop a suite of open source software tools.
• QCTools (Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation) is free, open ­source software developed by BAVC In collaboration with Dave Rice and the Dance Heritage Coalition.
• QCTool permits import of data sets no matter what their size is. As of now, a number of formats are allowed: ASCII XYZ, binary XYZ, Geosoft GBN, Geosoft GDB, Scintrex CG3/CG5 Dump, SeaSpy and others designed to meet the specific requirements of various customers. The import procedure is fully automated and easy to manage.
• QCtools.exe is known as QCtools and it is developed by unknown, it is also developed by FirstChip. We have seen about 2 different instances of QCtools.exe in different location. So far we haven't seen any alert about this product. If you think there is a virus or malware with this product, please submit your feedback at the bottom.

Drivers unisys. QCTools QCTools is a software tool that helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files through use of audiovisual analytics and filtering. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Knight Foundation; designed and led by Dave Rice and the Bay Area Video Coalition; developed by MediaArea, Fabio Utzig, Alexander Ivash.

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MediaInfo is our flagship product with 4 000 downloads per day, we also currently work on MediaConch, and we worked in the past on QCTools, BWF MetaEdit and some other projects.

The team

Each member of the team is unique and commits code under their own name. Their work is visible via their respective accounts listed below.

Our projects

Different levels of involvement, from self-funding, self-management, and full development to external funding, external management, and partial development.

These projects are open source, which means you can participate too. In addition, if you don't like what we are doing, you can fork the code and offer a better version.

Other projects

We are not directly involved in these projects but we use them for A/V analysis, and we sometimes send patches to these projects.

Events

We also organize or participate to several A/V related events.

Get in touch

We can contract worldwide, with business entities in Europe (France) and in North America (New York).

Physical adresses

7 Qc Tools

• Adds panel tracks which show timeline-based images that depict audio or video tracks. Initial tracks supported are:
  • Tiled Center Column
  • Tiled Center Column (Field Split)
  • Tiled Center Row
  • Horizontal Blur
  • Audio Waveform (Linear)
  • Audio Waveform (Logarithmic)
  • Audio NormalizedAudio Histogram
• Move toggle for graph/panel display from a toolbar to a popup window
• Add a graph of zero-crossing rate for audio tracks
• Add a graph of active video bitdepth
• Add a QCVault feature to qcli and QCTools to save QCTools reports in a selected folder or to a sidecar file
• Change default QCTools reporting format from gzipped xml (.xml.gz) to Matroska (.qctools.mkv)
• Added options to qcli for panel and track selection, reading/setting preferences shared with qctools
• Fix astats plotting issues by evaluating audio data as floats
• Fix selection of fill/highlight color in qctools player
• Fix when plotting audio sample tracks that are not 48kHz when the ebur128 graph is enabled
• Fix to provide graphs for more than one audio or video track
• Fix a crash when expected metadata was not avaialble for first few frames
• Fix stack overflow when skimming graphs