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Convert video, audio and subtitles into DCP (Digital Cinema Package). Version 2.19.2 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Convert video, audio and subtitles into DCP (Digital Cinema Package)
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Project history and usage
DCP-o-matic is an open-source application suite for converting video, audio, images, and subtitles into standards-oriented Digital Cinema Packages and for inspecting or manipulating existing DCP material.
Project history
Carl Hetherington develops DCP-o-matic as an open-source tool for generating Digital Cinema Packages. The project evolved through a 1.x line into a broader 2.x suite that added DCP import, subtitle workflows, advanced audio processing, a player, KDM tools, distributed encoding, verification, and related utilities.
Adoption history
The project is distributed directly for Windows, macOS, Linux, and several named Linux distributions. Its long-running release announcements document translations, distribution packaging, encrypted DCP and KDM support, DCP playback, and workflows contributed or tested by a geographically broad cinema community.
How it is used
Users create a film project, add source media, select cinema container, resolution, frame-rate, audio, subtitle, and metadata settings, then encode a DCP. Advanced deployments can distribute JPEG 2000 encoding to encode servers, create KDMs for encrypted packages, or configure transfer to a theatre-management system.
Why package nerds care
DCP-o-matic packages a specialized professional-media toolchain into an approachable desktop application while remaining buildable from source. Package maintainers care about its cross-platform builds, multimedia dependencies, command-line tools, encode-server component, and unusually specific digital-cinema standards requirements.
Timeline
- 2014–2015: Official announcements document the 1.x series, encrypted DCP creation, KDM generation, translations, and Linux packaging.
- 2016: The 2.x series broadened DCP import, subtitle, audio-processing, and content-reuse workflows.
- Later 2.x releases: The suite gained a dedicated DCP player and additional export, verification, authoring, and cinema-management tools.
Related projects
- DCP-o-matic’s suite includes Player, KDM Creator, Encode Server, Batch Converter, Playlist Editor, Disk Writer, Combiner, Editor, and Verifier.
- DVD-o-matic appears in the project’s early official announcement archive as a predecessor-era name.
Sources
- Official announcement archive: https://lists.dcpomatic.com/hyperkitty/list/announce@lists.dcpomatic.com/latest
- Official development page: https://dcpomatic.com/development
- Official downloads page: https://dcpomatic.com/download
- Official manual: https://dcpomatic.com/manual/html/
security posture
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for dcp-o-matic. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
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local files
Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
~/.config/dcpomatic2/config.xml- macOS
/Users/<user>/Library/Preferences/com.dcpomatic/2/config.xml- Windows
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\dcpomatic\config.xml
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Linux
~/.config/dcpomatic2/config.xml- macOS
/Users/<user>/Library/Preferences/com.dcpomatic/2/config.xml- Windows
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\dcpomatic\config.xml
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Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-11-04
manager version2.19.2
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://dcpomatic.com/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:dcp-o-matic |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.19.2 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/dcp-o-matic |
| Homepage | https://dcpomatic.com/ |
| Upstream docs | https://dcpomatic.com/ |
| Source archive | https://download.dcpomatic.com/dl.php?id=osx-10.10-main&version=2.19.2 |
| SHA-256 | ae54cfcd309b38c68c058a657949d463010a3f8e023f4922ae794badaf48d158 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | dcp-o-matic |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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