The dvd_info project is a set of utilities for accessing DVDs:

• dvd_info - display information about a DVD in human-readable or JSON output; display track chapters for Matroska container format
• dvd_copy - copy a DVD track plus chapters to the filesystem or stdout
• dvd_drive_status - display drive status: open, closed, closed with disc, or polling (Linux only)
• dvd_backup - back up an entire DVD to the filesystem
• dvd_player - a small DVD player using libmpv as backend
• dvd_rip - a shell script to rip DVDs using ffmpeg-7.0 and above
• dvd_debug - display debugging information about a DVD provided by libdvdread
• dvd_trip - a small DVD ripper using libmpv as backend - supports x264, x265, vp8, vp9, aac, opus, mp4, mkv, and webm
• dvd_debug - display debugging information about a DVD provided by libdvdread

• libdvdread >= 6.1.0
• libdvdcss for decryption
• libmpv for dvd_rip and dvd_player
• ffmpeg 7.0 or greater for dvd_rip

For dvd_info, dvd_copy, dvd_drive_status, and dvd_debug only:

cmake .
make
sudo make install

Building dvd_player and dvd_rip requires mpv to be installed with libmpv support first.

Run --help for each program to see its options.

There are man pages for each program as well.

The git repo on github is intended to build from a straight pull, if there are any issues please file a bug. Releases are provided at milestones.

A DVD source can be a device name, a directory, or an ISO.

If you're going to do a lot of reads on a disc drive, you can mount it so the filesystem access can be cached -- this is especially helpful when using the programs frequently on the same DVD.

sudo mount /dev/sr0 -o ro -t udf /mnt

I try porting my code to other systems, and in addition to Linux distros, it runs fine on BSD systems as well. It also builds with gcc and clang.

• https://dvds.beandog.org - my site all about DVDs
• https://github.com/beandog/bluray_info - similar tools for Blu-ray discs

Please file any issues at https://github.com/beandog/dvd_info/issues or email me at steve.dibb@gmail.com

Licensed under GPL-2. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt