DVDXCHAP(1)

💿 DVDXCHAP(1) — bestie's guide to stealing chapters off a DVD 💅

okay so real talk, this is the manual for dvdxchap, a User Commands page, and it's genuinely one of the most useful little gremlins in the whole ogmtools friend group. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

dvdxchap — extract chapter information from DVDs 🎬

like. that's it. that's the whole job. it reads a DVD and tells you where the chapters are.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dvdxchap [options] DVD-SOURCE

one binary, some optional flags, and a DVD source. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what this program does is it extracts chapter information from a DVD and prints it out in a form that ogmmerge(1) can actually eat. no cap. it's giving "middle man but make it iconic." 👑

here are the options, and yes, we're doing all of them, no skipping, periodt:

• -t, --title num — use title num. the default is 1, so if you don't say anything it just goes for title 1 like a good little default.
• -c, --chapter start[-end] — only output the given range of chapters, AND (this is the spicy part) it adjusts all the timecodes so they start at 0. the default is to output all chapters. so if you only want a slice, this is your girl. 🍰
• -v — increase verbosity. the more you say it, the more it yaps.
• -V — show version information. capital V, bestie, not lowercase. case matters, iykyk.
• -h — show help. when in doubt, -h it out. 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

the output generated by dvdxchap will have this form:

CHAPTER01=00:01:35.240
CHAPTER01NAME=Chapter 01
CHAPTER02=00:03:40:300
CHAPTER02NAME=Chapter 02
etc.

look at that. gorgeous. flawless. no notes. ✨

and here's the move: you should pipe its output to a file, then edit the chapter names (because Chapter 01 is not it, you deserve better), and then use the resulting file as an input for ogmmerge(1). that's the whole workflow, babes. 💅

ngl the manual literally says "etc." at the end of that list. so if you were hoping for a complete exhaustive sample, the manpage said "you get the idea" and moved on. respect, honestly. 😭

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

dvdxchap was written by Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>. some ideas were taken from Chapter-X-Tractor (<http://christophe.paris.free.fr/main.php3>), which was written by Christophe Paris. credit where credit is due, always. 🌟

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• ogmmerge(1)
• ogmsplit(1)
• ogminfo(1)
• ogmdemux(1)

the whole ogmtools cinematic universe. go read them, they're all in the family. 💜

🌐 WWW 🌐

the newest version can always be found at <http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/> — go get the fresh one, don't be running ancient software, i'm begging. 🙈

and that's the page!! 🎉 this was dvdxchap v1.5, brought to you from November 2004 (a legend, an icon, and she was ahead of her time fr fr). stay slay, go rip some chapters, and remember: pipe it to a file, edit the names, feed it to ogmmerge(1). mwah. 💖