VCDXGEN(1)

✨ VCDXGEN(1) ✨

okay bestie so welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, and today's main character is vcdxgen 💅 like literally the tool that generates your VideoCD XML. buckle up 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vcdxgen — manual page for vcdxgen 2.0.0 🦋

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

vcdxgen mpeg-track1 [mpeg-track2...]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, here's every single option it takes, no cap, no skipping, all of them 👑

• -o, --output-file=FILE — pick the xml file you want the output to go to. default is 'videocd.xml' 💾
• -t, --type=TYPE — choose your VideoCD type. your choices are 'vcd11', 'vcd2', 'svcd' or 'hqvcd'. default is 'vcd2' 🌈
• -l, --iso-volume-label=LABEL — set the ISO volume label for the video cd. default is 'VIDEOCD' 🏷️
• --iso-application-id=LABEL — set the ISO application id for the video cd. default is '' (yeah, empty, it's giving minimalist) 🙈
• --info-album-id=LABEL — set the album id for the video cd set. default is '' too 🎀
• --volume-count=NUMBER — how many volumes are in your album set 🔢
• --volume-number=NUMBER — the album set sequence number. it has to be < volume-count, so mind the math bestie 🧮
• --broken-svcd-mode — turns on non-compliant compatibility mode for broken devices. yes it's literally called broken mode 😭
• --update-scan-offsets — updates the scan data offsets in the video mpeg2 stream 🎞️
• --nopbc — don't create PBC 🚫
• --add-dirtree=DIR — add a directory's contents recursively to the ISO fs root 🌳
• --add-dir=ISO_DIRNAME — add an empty dir to the ISO fs 📁
• --add-file=FILE,ISO_FILENAME — add a single file to the ISO fs 📄
• --add-file-2336=FILE,ISO_FILENAME — add a file that contains full 2336 byte sectors to the ISO fs 🧱
• --filename-encoding=STRING — use the given charset encoding for filenames instead of UTF8 🔤
• -v, --verbose — be verbose, spill the tea 🗣️
• -q, --quiet — only show critical messages, keep it lowkey 🤫
• -V, --version — display version and copyright information, then exit 👋

🫶 Help options: 🫶

• -?, --help — show this help message 🙋
• --usage — display a brief usage message 📋

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

written by Herbert Valerio Riedel and Rocky Bernstein ✍️

http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/ 🌐

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2000-2003 Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>

      2003 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. fr fr, no warranty bestie, don't come for me 😭

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and that's the whole vibe check, babes 🦋 this was vcdxgen version 2.0.0, dated January 2018, living in section VCDXGEN(1) of the manual. slay, go generate some VideoCDs, ily 💖✨🎀