Make old home video and audio easy to play, in modern formats.

MediaTuna makes older home video and audio easy to play in modern formats. It converts them to MP4 and MP3 on your computer and carries the dates and tags across. The new files are copies for everyday playback, not a backup. Keep the originals, backed up separately.

A home archive is a pile of formats that take extra software to play, dates that broke after a copy, files scattered across folders, and no record of what you already converted. One pass. A table of planned changes first, and --dry-run stops there. Skip work that is already done. Originals are deleted only if you ask and confirm.

Stays 100% local · a local assistant can run it

First archive

Keep a backup you can restore. Preview, try a short clip, then write the new files somewhere other than the originals.

mediatuna "./archives/sample-shelf" --dry-run --output "./converted"
mediatuna "./archives/sample-shelf" --sample 20 --output "./samples"
mediatuna "./archives/sample-shelf" --output "./converted"

A fictional shelf (2010-09-24-Recording011.AVI, 16-05-24-17-19-01.MOV, picnic-clip.wav, porch-talk.mp3) shows planned names, date sources, and the next-run skip (exists) / skip (normalized) result in Archive example.

What you get

• Camcorder and home video → MP4
• Old audio → MP3, or skip when it is already fine
• Dates from tags or filenames when those exist, not guessed clocks
• Skip work that is already done
• Help when recovered files have no names

The format list and the rest of the options live in the docs.

Important caveats

Media + tune-a. You cannot tune a fish. You can make the files play.

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