DV-Tool
by CM of the Muscle Soft Crew
This document was last updated 12th Jan 2000.

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« What is DVtool?

DVtool is a program coded by me primarily for me. I decided to release it to the DVD community because I felt it might also be useful to others.
In the process of dealing with video files, DVDs, video capturing and other stuff I had to face some tasks that were either very complicated to do or even impossible with the software equipment I had.
So I implemented DVtool, which should help me with these tasks. The program is multithreaded and uses a ring buffer for file-io. This should make it VERY FAST.


« What functions does DVtool provide?

  • show information about an inserted DVD
  • calculate necessary video data rates
  • play Videos without gaps between them
  • truncate, clone, split and merge files
  • execute user configured (commandline) tools
  • automatic shutdown

  • « Version history

  • What is to come ?
  • Version 0.17b3 (public alpha and bugfix release)
  • Version 0.11 (public release)
  • Version 0.10ßx (several internal alpha releases)
  • Version 0.09ß (public beta release)
  • Version 0.05 (internal beta)
  • Version 0.04 (public alpha release)
  • Version 0.02 (internal alpha)


    « Legal stuff and how to contact the author

    My homepage
    If you like you can visit my homepage at http://privat.schlund.de/m/muscle. It hasn't been updated for some time but you might find interesting source code, some software, a nice Java Tutorial and other stuff there. There will soon be another homepage with all my new Windows software and stuff. Check it out!
    How to contact me per e-mail
    If you want to report bugs, contribute anything to the DVtool project or have something else interesting to say feel free to send me an e-mail. Please don't care about style, I am a very easy-going person. You can (of course) write in German or English.
    Legal Disclaimer
    You may use this program as written in the license provided below, if you accept the following legal statement.
    I will not be liable for any damage caused by this program. As it deals also with file processing, data loss is theoretically possible, although not intended by me.
    You may not use this program for illegal stuff. This program can, as a side effect, be very useful e.g. for processing files from a DVD, which is illegal if you don't have the permission to process these files. If you do something illegal, that's not my fault.
    The program itself does nothing illegal, nor does it decode CSS decryption or other such stuff.
    License
    This program is donationware, i.e. it is uncrippled and free as long as you don't use it in a commercial way. If you like the program, use it often, want it to be developed and extended further or use it commercially then I ask you to send me a donation of any kind. This might be some money or a copy of a software you are developing. Please contact me via e-mail.

    (C) 1999 by CM / MSC
    this program is donationware