Introduction
MediaVerify is the enhanced verification software that ensures the completeness and consistency of your media data with the versatile ASC MHL standard.
It is available for MacOS and Windows. The application enables secure and reliable data transfers from set to post by monitoring the managed files and verifying the checksums. Moreover, it offers comprehensive features to analyze the received media data:
- Verification of files with custom checksum methods
- Automated file scanning with comprehensive reporting
- Renaming detection
- Custom ignore patterns
- Detailed overview of history and file generations
- Collaborative data management with the ASC MHL Creator Info
- Reports and log files
Please visit the MediaVerify product page to download the application for free.
Installation
Operating systems and requirements
You can find the latest information on system requirements for our products here.
How to install on MacOS
Fig. 1: Drag And Drop The MediaVerify Icon Onto The Applications Folder
After having downloaded the software successfully, double click the “MediaVerify.dmg” to mount the disk image and access the application that is inside. Copy the Pomfort MediaVerify application to your Applications folder or any other destination. Drag and drop the application icon from the Finder onto the Dock for quick access. Click the MediaVerify icon to start the application.
How to install on Windows
Fig. 2: MediaVerify In Windows
After having downloaded the .exe file successfully, double-click the file to execute MediaVerify. If you see a blue warning message, click on “More info” and then on “Run anyway”.
The installation wizard will guide you through the installation and MediaVerify will be available on your system. Check the start menu or the desktop icon to launch the application.
How to verify a volume or folder
Quick overview
MediaVerify is an enhanced verification software that ensures the completeness and consistency of your media data with the versatile ASC MHL standard. The application is capable of verifying all data managed with ASC MHL.
ASC MHL histories can be initialized by Silverstack and Offload Manager but you can verify data from any other software that is able to create ASC MHL files.
In the following sections, we refer to folders for reasons of simplification but want to clarify that the same procedure will also work for drives.
Generally speaking, the root level of the folder structure needs to contain an ASC MHL history.
Adjust the settings to your needs
The settings allow you to change the default checksum method, enable the renaming detection, define custom ignore patterns, and enter the creator information. If you do not want to change the default values, you can proceed with the next step. We recommend entering basic contact information into the creator info.
Choose a drive or folder
Fig. 3: Choose A Drive Or Folder To Start The Verification
MediaVerify offers several ways to open a drive or folder for verification:
- Click the button “Choose Drive or Folder…”
- Drag and drop a folder into the MediaVerify window
- Drag and drop a folder onto the MediaVerify application icon
Please ensure the selected folder contains an ASC MHL history, or the application will show a “No ASC MHL History found” error.
Quick scan
After opening the folder, MediaVerify will immediately perform a quick scan that utilizes the ASC MHL diff command. This scan is an additional step to help you identify issues like missing or new files even before verification.
Please note that the actual hash comparison is performed during the verification process itself.
If the quick scan detects a problem, you will be automatically forwarded to the files view for further investigation.
If the quick scan cannot detect any issues, you will remain in the summary view. The content on disk and content in history values should ideally match (unless you set custom ignore patterns).
For more information on potential failure cases, please visit section How to identify issues.
Verification
Fig. 5: MediaVerify Is Processing The Data
Click the verify button to start the verification. MediaVerify will read every file to create checksums and compare them with those stored in the ASC MHL history. During the verification, you see the amount of data processed and the file currently being processed. A progress bar indicates how long the verification will take. The duration depends on the amount of data and the available reading speed of the source.
Evaluation
Fig. 6: The Verification Completed Successfully
A green check mark indicates that the verification process completed successfully.
If you see a red error sign with the header information telling you that the verification failed, please visit the How to identify issues page for more information.
You can click the history and files views to get further insights into your data. The sections history and files explain this in detail.
Reports and logs
After MediaVerify has finished the verification, you may save a report file with an overview of the result for documentation purposes.
Click “Save Report File…” at the bottom right corner of the user interface to save the report as a text file. You can do the same to save a log file.
Fig. 6: Snippet Of A Report File
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