# Install dvd-vr with Homebrew, Nix

Utility to identify and extract recordings from DVD-VR files. Version 0.9.7 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#dvd-vr.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dvd-vr
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dvd-vr
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#dvd-vr
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dv/dvd-vr/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dvd-vr
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.7
- **Source summary:** Utility to identify and extract recordings from DVD-VR files
- **Homepage:** <https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dvd-vr (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9.7
## Project history and usage

dvd-vr is a small Pixelbeat command-line utility for identifying and optionally copying recordings from DVD-VR discs, the format used by some DVD recorders and camcorders. It exists because DVD-VR discs are not the same thing as ordinary DVD-Video discs, so generic ripping or file-copying tools often miss the recording metadata and program boundaries users care about.

### Project history

The official Pixelbeat page says the open source program was created in February 2007 by reverse engineering DVD-VR format discs. Its NEWS file records version 0.1 on 2007-02-16 as the initial release, followed by a series of portability, metadata, encoding, label, and extraction fixes through version 0.9.7 on 2010-08-24.

The early changelog shows the project being shaped by real discs from multiple users: Mac OS X, Cygwin, Japanese labels, LG recorder quirks, CPRM detection, and partially encrypted programs all appear as concrete compatibility fixes.

### Adoption history

dvd-vr never became a broad multimedia platform; it remained a niche rescue and extraction tool. Its adoption is visible through packaging in Homebrew and Nix, which is exactly the kind of package-manager preservation niche where a tiny utility remains valuable long after the consumer devices fade.

### How it is used

Users point `dvd-vr` at the DVD_RTAV/VR_MANGR.IFO file or a mounted DVD-VR disc. The tool reports disc format details and can copy individual programs to VOB files, preserving useful labels or timestamps where the recorder wrote them.

### Why package nerds care

dvd-vr is significant because it captures reverse-engineered knowledge about a consumer-recording format that sits outside the usual DVD-Video path. For package maintainers, keeping it buildable is a low-cost way to preserve access to old camcorder and recorder media.

### Timeline

- 2007-02-16: Version 0.1 initial release.
- 2007-11-14: Version 0.4 added program selection, better unknown-resolution reporting, label extraction, and timestamp-based filenames.
- 2008-11-04: Version 0.8 added a make install target, man page, stdout writing, and long options.
- 2010-08-24: Version 0.9.7 added detection of partially encrypted programs and MPEG stream fixes.

### Related projects

- dvd-vr sits near tools such as dvdbackup, libdvdread, VLC, FFmpeg, and other DVD/VOB utilities, but its focus is the DVD-VR recording format rather than standard DVD-Video titles.

### Sources

- <https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr>
- <https://www.pixelbeat.org/programs/dvd-vr/NEWS.html>
- <https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/DVD-VR>
- <https://github.com/pixelb/dvd-vr>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - dvd-vr: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dv/dvd-vr/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dvd-vr.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/dvd-vr.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph