Movie Archive is in an early development phase. Nothing end-user compatible is working yet.
You want to free your DVDs from their physical existence and convert them to files you can consume on your devices? Then this project is for you. Movie Archive ingests DVDs into a modern experience with menus and bonus content. Not all DVD features are represented faithfully, but we preserve as much as we can. To be future-proof, the resulting menus and bonus clips can be watched in any recent web browser as well.
These modules form the architectural layers of the application:
Model
The central data structures store a tree of media assets and menus. The data model includes
facilities to manipulate it, but it is not concerned with how and why these manipulations
take place. Manipulations are conducted as a work queue of tree passes. The data model tree
is value-typed, but may contain reference-typed payload.
Importers
This module implements the use case of importing from external representations like DVDs to
the internal data model. Initially, the entire DVD structures are imported into one opaque
model node, then tree passes are executed to break this structure down into a clean model
representation.
Exporters
Exporting will convert the internal data model to an on-disk representation. The canonical
export is to encode M4V files and write out JSON menu files to include the movie in the
archive library.
XPCConverter
All external libraries like libdvdread or libhandbrake run in isolation within this XPC
service. It implements a controller layer to interface with these libraries. To override and
augment external library behavior, an intercept layer replaces some functionality of
libSystem.
macOS
This layer contains all macOS-specific code and bridges the importer and exporter use case
layers to the macOS frameworks.
Players
Players are separate from the model, importer, and exporter layers and present UI to view
the stored movies.
This work is licensed under MPLv2 for compatibility with the App Store. The XPCConverter links against code licensed under GNU GPLv2 and is thus covered by this license. Nothing in this work handles copy-protected DVDs, you have to deal with the CSS copy-protection yourself.