DVDUNAUTHOR(1)

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💿 DVDUNAUTHOR(1) — bestie's guide to un-authoring a DVD 💿

okay so real talk, this one lives in the DVDAuthor Man Pages family, and it's the little un-builder of the group. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dvdunauthor — Decodes DVD-Video file structure 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dvdunauthor [ path ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

dvdunauthor decodes the DVD-Video directory structure you point it at, and then drops into your current directory two things, like a little care package:

  • an XML control file, and
  • the corresponding MPEG-2 files (with a .vob extension) 🍓

and the whole point of that lil bundle is that dvdauthor can (hopefully) interpret it to recreate the DVD-Video directory structure. hopefully. we love a hopeful girlie. 💅

🫶 USAGE 🫶

dvdunauthor path

💀 CAVEATS 💀

None. 😌✨ literally none. a clean slate, an unbothered queen. 👑

🐛 BUGS 🐛

so this whole thing depends on libdvdread to decode the DVD-Video structure and to report any errors it runs into while trying to do that.

but bestie. libdvdread will sometimes just exit without reporting any error. 😭 like it ghosts you mid-conversation. no error message, no explanation, nothing. it's giving cryptic. it's giving mysterious. it's giving iykyk. 🙈

fr fr, if something goes weird and there's no error text to show for it, that's the vibe you're dealing with.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 💜

and yeah, the raw author block is a lil glommed-together, so let's just preserve every crumb of it, exactly as it showed up: MarcLeeman, then the manual-page credit to Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com> for Debian GNU/Linux (may be used by others), then <marc.leeman@gmail.com> again, then MarcLeeman2003Marc Leeman — and yes, that 2003 is in there. iconic formatting, no notes. 🌈⭐

so that's the page! written for the DVDAuthor Man Pages, dated Fri Dec 30 19:47:26 CET 2005. go decode something, bestie, and remember: if libdvdread exits with zero explanation, that's not you, that's just her. 🦋💖🎀

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