This site provides the latest source code release of dvdisaster for the FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and NetBSD operating systems. It is mostly aimed at maintainers of binary packages for the beforementioned platforms. End users might find it more convenient to install dvdisaster from the package system of their operating system bundle or distribution. But if you prefer to download and compile the source package on your own, you're welcome, too.
This site does not provide information on the purpose and usage of dvdisaster. This is better described at other places, e.g. in the user manual and numerous online forums.

New site!

Thanks to Jesús Cea, this site is brought alive again. Several other people familiar with the project are working on updates, at least to keep up with current releases of the supported operating systems. Please be patient. A lot of stuff needs to be cleaned up and reorganized.

Download the source code

dvdisaster is available for the FreeBSD, GNU/Linux und NetBSD operating systems. It is provided as free software under the GNU General Public License v3. There are two ways of obtaining the source code:

• Get the latest development code from the mercurial repository; or
• Download a release from the list below. A digital signature is provided for verification that the releases are in their original state.

The source tree contains a file INSTALL with further instructions for building dvdisaster.

Releases

dvdisaster-0.79.10.tar.bz2 (digital signature, md5 sum: e913b8375a2bd41a55df7f53379f8d0d)

• Added --with-gui=no option to build a command line version without GTK linkage.
• Merged various patches from Debian and Stéphane Lesimple.
• Lots of small fixes and improvements.

• Clean build for gcc-10 and Debian 11 (sid) or Slackware 15.

• Clean build for gcc-8 and Debian Buster.
• Some rework on the user manual.

• This is basically version 0.79.6 repackaged with updated contact information.
• The "medium info" tool will now correctly show the blank capacity (was previously always shown as zero).
• Added support for BDXL-TL (triple layer, 100GB) media.
• Sector CRC sums and the image MD5 sums are collected during reading the medium and can be re-used by the ecc data creation process. Speeds up ecc generation and enables RS03 image checksums when generating ecc data was preceeded by a read.