# Install dvanalyzer with Homebrew

Quality control tool for examining tape-to-file DV streams. Version 1.4.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dvanalyzer
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dvanalyzer
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dvanalyzer
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.2
- **Source summary:** Quality control tool for examining tape-to-file DV streams
- **Homepage:** <https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dvanalyzer (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.4.2
## Project history and usage

DV Analyzer is a MediaArea utility for inspecting DV streams, especially the kinds of DV files created during tape-to-file preservation workflows. Its history is less about mass-market video editing and more about digital preservation: it gives archivists and media engineers a focused way to validate timecode, recording timestamps, DIF structure, and other DV-specific consistency signals.

### Project history

The upstream changelog records a first official 0.9.0 release on 2009-04-27, based on MediaInfo 0.7.15 beta, with STA error detection, timestamp and timecode reporting, recording date/time detection, gap detection, and start/end flag detection. Version 1.0.0 followed days later on 2009-04-30 with better support for large QuickTime MOV files and NULL-padded DIFs.

During 2009 and 2010 the tool quickly grew from a DV stream inspector into both CLI and GUI-oriented software, adding XML output, Final Cut Pro XML output, table views, summaries, and lower memory usage for large files. MediaArea's own product metadata later listed version 1.4.2 dated 2017-09-26 and described the application as a cross-platform multimedia/video tool.

### Adoption history

DV Analyzer's adoption sits in the same preservation-tool ecosystem as other MediaArea projects such as MediaInfo, MediaConch, QCTools, DVRescue, and BWF MetaEdit. It is packaged in Homebrew as a command-line tool because preservation pipelines often need repeatable batch checks instead of manual playback.

### How it is used

Users run the `dvanalyzer` executable against DV essence or DV-in-container files to generate quality-control reports about timecode continuity, recording timestamps, audio/video structure, and other DV-specific errors. It is useful after tape capture, before ingest, or while triaging a collection of legacy DV recordings.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, DV Analyzer is notable because it preserves a very specific media-forensics niche rather than a broad playback or transcoding feature set. It is also a small example of the MediaArea pattern: wrap deep container/bitstream knowledge in a repeatable CLI that preservation shops can compose with other tools.

### Timeline

- 2009-04-27: First official 0.9.0 release, based on MediaInfo 0.7.15 beta.
- 2009-04-30: Version 1.0.0 added large MOV support and improved NULL-padded DIF handling.
- 2009-09-01: Version 1.3.0 adapted the source for both CLI and GUI use and added XML output.
- 2010-05-02: Version 1.4.0 reduced memory use and fixed PAL timecode math issues.
- 2017-09-26: MediaArea product metadata lists DV Analyzer 1.4.2.

### Related projects

- DV Analyzer is part of the broader MediaArea preservation family, alongside MediaInfo for general media metadata, MediaConch for conformance checking, QCTools for audiovisual quality analysis, and DVRescue for DV tape-rescue workflows.

### Sources

- <https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer>
- <https://github.com/MediaArea/DVAnalyzer>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MediaArea/DVAnalyzer/master/History_CLI.txt>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dvanalyzer.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/dvanalyzer.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph