check-mi is a Python 3 script (tested with Python 3.8) that automatically checks the integrity of media files (pictures, video, audio). You can check the integrity of a single file, or set of files in a folder and subfolders recursively, finally you can optionally output the list of bad files with their path and details in CSV format.
The tool tests file integrity using common libraries (Pillow, ImageMagik, FFmpeg) and checking when they are effectively able to decode the media files. Warning, image, audio and video formats are very resilient to defects and damages for this reason the tool cannot detect all the damaged files.
check-mi is able, with 100% confidence, to spot files that have broken header/metadata, truncated image files (with strict_level >0), and device i/o errors.
check-mi is, usually, not able to detect all the minor damages--e.g. small portion of media file overwritten with different values. In detail, I have tested strict_level 1 with a small randomized experiment, executed on a single 5MB jpeg picture:
In the case you know ways to instruct Pillow, Wand and FFmpeg to be stricter when decoding, please tell me.
check-mi help:
usage: check_mi.py [-h] [-c X] [-v] [-r] [-z Z] [-i] [-m] [-p] [-e] [-x E]
[-l L] [-t T] [-T K]
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Checks integrity of Media files (Images, Video, Audio).
positional arguments:
P path to the file or folder
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c X, --csv X Save bad files details on csv file X
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
-r, --recurse Recurse subdirs
-z Z, --enable_zero_detect Z
Detects when files contains a byte sequence of at
least Z equal bytes. This case is quite common, for
jpeg format too, you need to set high Z values
-i, --disable-images Ignore image files
-m, --enable-media Enable check for audio/video files
-p, --disable-pdf Ignore pdf files
-e, --disable-extra Ignore extra image extensions (psd, xcf,. and rare
ones)
-x E, --err-detect E Execute ffmpeg decoding with a specific err_detect
flag E, 'strict' is shortcut for
+crccheck+bitstream+buffer+explode
-l L, --strict_level L
Uses different approach for checking images depending
on L integer value. Accepted values 0,1 (default),2: 0
ImageMagick identify, 1 Pillow library+ImageMagick, 2
applies both 0+1 checks
-t T, --threads T number of parallel threads used for speedup, default
is one. Single file execution does not take advantage
of the thread option
-T K, --timeout K Number of seconds to wait for new performed checks in
queue, default is 120 sec, you need to raise the
default when working with video files (usually) bigger
than few GBytes
- Single file check ignores options -i,-m,-p,-e,-c,-t
- strict_level: level 0 execution may be faster than level 1 and level 2 is
the slowest one. 0 have low recall and high precision, 1 has higher recall, 2
has the highest recall but could have more false positives
- With 'err_detect' option you can provide the strict shortcut or the flags
supported by ffmpeg, e.g.: crccheck, bitstream, buffer, explode, or their
combination, e.g., +buffer+bitstream
- Supported image formats/extensions: ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'jpe', 'png', 'bmp',
'gif', 'pcd', 'tif', 'tiff', 'j2k', 'j2p', 'j2x', 'webp']
- Supported image EXTRA formats/extensions:['eps', 'ico', 'im', 'pcx', 'ppm',
'sgi', 'spider', 'xbm', 'tga', 'psd', 'xcf']
- Supported audio/video extensions: ['avi', 'mp4', 'mov', 'mpeg', 'mpg',
'm2p', 'mkv', '3gp', 'ogg', 'flv', 'f4v', 'f4p', 'f4a', 'f4b', 'mp3', 'mp2']
- Output CSV file, has the header raw, and one line for each bad file,
providing: file name, error message, file sizeCheck a single file (remind, strict_level default is 1 and number of threads default is 1):
check_mi.py ./test_folder/files/050807-124755t.jpg
Check a folder (folder files, contains the media files):
check_mi.py ./test_folder/files
Check a folder, and subfolder recursively:
check_mi.py -r ./test_folder/files
Check a folder, and subfolder recursively and also check media (audio and video):
check_mi.py -m -r ./test_folder/files
Check a folder, and subfolder recursively and save bad files details to out.csv file:
check_mi.py -r ./test_folder/files -c ./test_folder/output/out.csv
Check a folder, and subfolder recursively using 4 processes/threads, and save bad files details to out.csv file:
check_mi.py -r -t 4 ./test_folder/files -c ./test_folder/output/out.csv
This is what I'm using in my dev env, but different versions may work...
future==0.17.1
Pillow-SIMD==7.0.0.post3
PyPDF2==1.26.0
Wand==0.4.5You can also use the standard Pillow-PIL module, but it is far slower than Pillow-SIMD. Now the implementation wotks with PIL-SIMD all versions ( > < = to 6.2.2 )
In case you have only libav and not ffmpeg library/binaries in your Linux OS, you can fix this by creating a symbolic link ffmpeg -> full/path/to/avconv somewhere in your system search path.
test_damage.py is a funny experiment, it evaluates the probability of a random damage to be detected by this tool. That is the outcome is a bit below expectations, the damage has to be in vital parts, better to be a random noise or to be a file truncation. I think that the code is self explanatory.