Optical authoring studio for DVD-Video, AVCHD and Blu-ray, with interactive menus, non-destructive editing, navigation simulation and native burning.

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DVD Forge brings the media library, visual menu editor, trimmer, chapters, audio and subtitle tracks, remote-control simulation, navigation map and final production into a single window. The same project can be delivered as a classic DVD-Video or as high-definition AVCHD/Blu-ray without duplicating the creative work.

WYSIWYG menu	Trimmer and chapters

Simulator with remote	Virtual machine map

Audio and subtitles	VBR optimizer

• Single-window workbench with media library, Konva canvas, inspector, episode sequence and an always-visible capacity bar.
• Portable JSON projects with structural validation, disc budget and diagnostics before encoding.
• Recent-project autosave and job history in SQLite.
• Integrated toolchain doctor for FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, DVDAuthor, xorriso, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo and libbluray.

• DVD-5 and DVD-9 authoring with OTP/PTP layer-break calculation aligned to 16-sector ECC blocks.
• Compatibility with living-room players, PlayStation 2/3/4/5, Xbox and software players.
• VMGM/VTSM menus, First Play, chapters, Play All and automatic return.
• Real DVD region mask in VIDEO_TS.IFO and VIDEO_TS.BUP, plus RCE checking.
• Two-pass MPEG-2, AC-3 2.0/5.1 and .srt/.ass/.ssa/.vtt subtitles with sync offset. In HD projects, tracks are preserved in the project and shown in the editor.

• AVCHD on DVD-5/DVD-9 and native Blu-ray BD-25/BD-50.
• H.264 High with bluray-compat, closed GOP, 30,000–40,000 kbit VBV and up to 38 Mbps on Blu-ray.
• Native HDMV Interactive Graphics menus: PDS, WDS, ODS with RLE, ICS and END, buttons with normal/selected/activated states and directional navigation.
• Nested menus: each menu is published as its own IG/Playlist clip and linked with JumpObject; episode and chapter buttons start at the exact mark through GPR and PlayPL_PM.
• Looping video backgrounds, moving-thumbnail buttons and AC-3 menu audio with volume, fades and a silent backup track.
• Final UDF 2.50 image with Metadata Partition (Metadata File + Metadata Mirror File), readable by libbluray, living-room players and consoles.

• WYSIWYG canvas with even coordinates, grid, safe areas and action guides.
• Six button styles: 16:9 thumbnail, classic, glass, Play badge, text only and an invisible hotspot over custom artwork.
• Automatic geometry-based navigation with manual overrides per direction.
• Thumbnails and frames extracted from the original video.
• Static and animated menu previews before producing the disc.

• Direct import of .mp4, .mkv, .avi, .mov and other common containers. The editor builds a cached MP4 proxy for preview but always keeps the original file as the highest-quality source.
• Non-destructive In/Out trimming and chapter management by time or frame.
• Multiple AC-3 2.0/5.1 audio tracks, default track, gain and delay.
• External subtitles with language, label, forced flag and offset.
• Interactive simulator with virtual remote, focus, activation and menu buttons.
• Virtual-machine node map with the project's real transitions.

• Reactive Svelte 5 i18n engine with no heavy dependencies.
• Seven interface locales: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Japanese.
• Automatic first-run detection from navigator.language, persisted in localStorage (dvdforge_locale) and switchable live from the header.
• Official ISO 639 language catalog for audio and subtitle tracks: 2-letter ISO 639-1 codes for DVD-Video and 3-letter ISO 639-2/T codes for Blu-ray/AVCHD, including bibliographic aliases (fre, ger, chi, baq).
• FFprobe tags.language values are normalized into the catalog automatically when importing media.
• Bilingual product documentation: this English README and README.es.md.

• Shared pipeline between the desktop app and the CLI: the same menus, subtitles, regions and budgets apply in both environments.
• Native optical burning on Linux (growisofs with xorriso fallback), Windows (IMAPI2) and macOS (drutil/hdiutil).
• DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R, BD-RE and BD-R DL support, with MMC profile, capacity and real media-speed detection.
• Optional SHA-256 verification and clean cancellation of render or burn jobs.
• SHA-256 artifact cache to avoid re-encoding unchanged sources, trims, audio or bitrates.

On Linux i686 the CLI and the entire authoring stack are natively supported. The desktop app is published as a portable binary when the distribution provides 32-bit WebKitGTK/GTK; some distributions only ship those libraries for 64-bit.

System tools:

# Arch / CachyOS
sudo pacman -S --needed ffmpeg dvdauthor dvd+rw-tools libisoburn udftools \
  gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-libav

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install ffmpeg dvdauthor dvd+rw-tools xorriso udftools \
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-libav \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 libgtk-3-0

# Fedora
sudo dnf install ffmpeg dvdauthor dvd+rw-tools xorriso udftools \
  gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free \
  webkit2gtk4.1 gtk3

tsMuxeR is distributed as a standalone binary: download it and place it on PATH. libbluray/bd_info are optional and are used to validate the ISO.

• Windows 10 64-bit or 32-bit and Windows 11 64-bit, with WebView2.
• FFmpeg/FFprobe, tsMuxeR and DVDAuthor/Spumux available on PATH.
• Burning uses the native IMAPI2 API; no external tools are required.

The application can be built from source. Burning uses drutil/hdiutil; FFmpeg, tsMuxeR and the authoring tools must be installed and accessible.

Download the appropriate installer from the releases page:

• Linux x86_64: .AppImage or .deb.
• Linux i686: portable desktop binary and CLI.
• Windows x86_64/i686: .msi, NSIS installer and portable CLI.
• Universal CLI: dvdforge-cli to automate plans, renders and burning.

# Frontend dependencies
cd apps/desktop
npm ci

# Desktop application
npm run tauri build

# CLI
cd ../..
cargo build --release -p dvdforge-cli

To build the 32-bit CLI:

rustup target add i686-unknown-linux-gnu
cargo build --release -p dvdforge-cli --target i686-unknown-linux-gnu

1. Create a DVD-Video, AVCHD or Blu-ray project.
2. Import the videos and drag them into the sequence.
3. Trim In/Out, add chapters and adjust audio/subtitles.
4. Design the menu, assign actions and check navigation in the simulator.
5. Open Produce disc, choose ISO or ISO + burning and select the drive.
6. Verify the result with a player or burn the final disc.

# Check system tools
dvdforge-cli doctor

# Inspect a file
dvdforge-cli probe movie.mkv --json

# Calculate a project budget
dvdforge-cli plan project.json -o plan.json --probe

# Build the ISO with the same pipeline as the desktop app
dvdforge-cli render project.json -o output

# List drives and burn
dvdforge-cli devices
dvdforge-cli burn output/disc.iso --device /dev/sr0 --speed 4

The CLI shares the renderer, HDMV menus, DVD subtitles, regions, BD-25/BD-50 budget and artifact cache with the desktop application.

• Rust for the domain, planning, encoding, authoring, ISO/UDF, HDMV menus, SQLite persistence and optical burning.
• Tauri v2 as the secure native bridge between the interface and the system.
• Svelte 5 + Vite + Tailwind CSS 4 + Konva for the visual editor.
• FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, DVDAuthor/Spumux, xorriso, growisofs and libbluray as external engines.

DVD Forge is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later). See LICENSE for the full text.