# Install lsdvd with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper
Read the content info of a DVD. Version 0.21 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install lsdvd.
## Install
```sh
sudo av install brew:lsdvd
```
Additional install commands:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install lsdvd
```
Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install lsdvd
```
Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/lsdvd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add lsdvd
```
Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lsdvd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install lsdvd
```
Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: lsdvd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install lsdvd
```
Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lsdvd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#lsdvd
```
Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ls/lsdvd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S lsdvd
```
Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: lsdvd from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
- zypper (92%):
```sh
sudo zypper install lsdvd
```
Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: lsdvd from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst
## Package facts
- **Package key:** brew:lsdvd
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.21
- **Source summary:** Read the content info of a DVD
- **Homepage:**
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:31:48-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## Executables
- lsdvd (alias)
## Install behavior
- Bottle: not available
## Freshness
- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.21
## Project history and usage
lsdvd is a small console utility for reading DVD-Video metadata and printing it in machine- or human-readable forms. Its official SourceForge summary describes it as a DVD content inspector that reports video tracks, audio tracks, subtitles, and related title information.
### Project history
The project was registered on SourceForge on 2005-03-13 and has long lived in the ecosystem around libdvdread and command-line DVD tooling. The current SourceForge Git tree identifies Steve Dibb and Petter Reinholdtsen among project maintainers and shows a modernized Autotools-based source layout.
The historical SourceForge file area preserves early releases such as 0.10, 0.15, and 0.16, with a 0.17 tarball published in 2014. The current Git tree shows later development continuing through the 0.21 release marker in 2025, including README updates, XML output changes, JSON output, and test-suite work.
### Adoption history
lsdvd became a useful packaging target because it exposes DVD structure without a GUI and can feed other scripts. The supplied package facts list it in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/DNF, Alpine, Arch, openSUSE/Zypper, MacPorts, and Nix, which is broad adoption for a narrow media-inspection utility.
### How it is used
The README says lsdvd reads information from a DVD and can output human-readable, JSON, Perl, Python, Ruby, and XML formats. Typical package-manager usage is installing the binary and running it against a mounted or inserted DVD, or calling it from scripts that need title, track, subtitle, and language metadata before ripping, transcoding, or cataloging.
### Why package nerds care
For package maintainers, lsdvd is a classic Unix-style media helper: small C source, GPL-2.0 licensing, libdvdread/libxml dependencies, and a stable CLI niche. It matters less as a flashy application than as one of the plumbing commands that made optical-media workflows scriptable.
### Timeline
- 2005: Project registered on SourceForge.
- 2006: SourceForge file area shows the 0.16 release folder.
- 2014: SourceForge files show 0.10, 0.15, 0.16, and 0.17 tarballs published or republished.
- 2025: Git tree marks the 0.21 release and shows continued maintenance.
### Related projects
- Related tools include libdvdread, which lsdvd uses to inspect DVD metadata, and command-line DVD/transcoding tools that consume title and stream information.
### Sources
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- source_facts.package-manager
## Security Notes
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
## Other Package-Manager Records
- Debian apt - lsdvd - 0.20-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: lsdvd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | read the content info of a DVD | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- Nix - lsdvd: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ls/lsdvd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - lsdvd - 0.17-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: lsdvd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | read the content info of a DVD | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- apk - lsdvd - 0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lsdvd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Console application that displays the content of a DVD | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- apk - lsdvd-doc - 0.17-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: lsdvd-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Console application that displays the content of a DVD (documentation) | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- dnf - lsdvd - 0.17-27.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: lsdvd from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Small application for listing the contents of DVDs | http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- pacman - lsdvd - 0.21-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: lsdvd from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Console application that displays the content of a DVD | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- zypper - lsdvd - 0.21-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: lsdvd from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A ls for video DVDs | https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/
- MacPorts - lsdvd: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/lsdvd/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/lsdvd.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/lsdvd.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