Introduction
The old files are hard to play, hard to date, and hard to find. MediaTuna turns that pile into playable MP4 and MP3 without losing the dates, tags, or work you've already done.
A home archive is mixed types, interlaced DV, missing tags, and Windows dates that broke after a copy. Camcorder files (AVI, MOV, MOD, VOB, MTS, and the rest) become MP4. Audio (FLAC, WMA, WAV, already-good MP3s) becomes MP3, or is skipped when it's already fine. One pass, a preflight table, skip of work that is already done, deletes only after you confirm.
Stays 100% local.
What it is good at
Core
- One pass over video and audio (or
--video-only/--audio-only) - Safe defaults — dry-run, duration verify, Recycle Bin, hash before recup cleanup
- Skip normalized MP3s and existing outputs;
--resumea long batch - AAC copy when the source is already AAC LC (
--reencode-audioto force 192k)
Data preservation
- Dates survive container tags, filenames, and Windows Created/Modified
- Recovery helpers — Everything dupes, PhotoRec folder rebuild
It is not a GUI editor, a cloud library, or a backup. Keep a copy you can restore from.
Agents
A local agent can dry-run, sample, and convert — it should call mediatuna, not invent an ffmpeg command line. Agents.