In this talk, MediaArea founder and technical lead Jérôme Martinez provides aglobal view of the different tools we use (or facilitate use of) for mediaanalysis. We will cover the following: Metadata extraction and review with**Mediainfo** ; file format validation and local policy conformance checkingwith **MediaConch** ; embedding and editing of audio metadata with **BWFMetaEdit** ; and audiovisual quality control tool developed for analysis ofdigitized analog video files with **QCTools** , with support from **FFmpeg**.MediaArea is an open source software company focused on digital mediaanalysis. We develop and support tools that aid developers in integratingdigital media file investigation into their work.