Using the command line utilities bundled with SmallDVD

Thursday, September 25, 2008

SmallDVD includes precompiled utilities of several useful utilities. To use these directly from the command line, just add the directory to your path. So if you put SmallDVD in the Applications folder, do this:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/SmallDVD.app/Contents/Resources

Add this to your .profile file if you want it to happen every time you open a terminal window.

The utilities included are:

ffmpeg: video & audio conversion, and remultiplexing

dvdauthor: creates DVD folders from video files

mkisofs: creates an ISO disk image from the DVD folders

mplex: video/audio multiplexing (no longer used by SmallDVD)

bbdmux: demultiplexes video/audio (no longer used by SmallDVD)

And a few others used in the creation of DVD menus,

spumux

mpeg2enc

png2yuv

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