DVD Title

• DVD Unique Identifiers
• lsdvd
• volname

Each disc will have a title assigned to it. This is a small string. The disc title is not a unique identifer in itself, but it can be used as an element in creating one if you are archiving your titles.

Most programs that access your DVD will at some point usually spit it out as part of displaying the metadata.

There are a few ways to get the title from a disc. In this case, I'm using Ruby Spears Superman, disc one.

Volname is the simplest one, if you are looking to use it for a shell script:

$ volname dvd.iso
RUBY_SPEARS_SUPERMAN_DISC_01

Some other ways to get it:

lsdvd dvd.iso 2> /dev/null | grep "^Disc Title" | cut -d " " -f 3-

Or you can use dd:

dd if=VIDEO_TS.IFO bs=1 count=32 skip=64 2> /dev/null

Also, here's a small C program I wrote cobbled together from multiple sources to get it as well:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/cdrom.h>
 
/**
 * A simple little program to get the DVD title
 *
 * Checks if the device is a DVD drive or not, and if it is, also looks to see
 * if it can be polled or not.
 */
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
 
	int cdrom;
	int drive_status;
	int disc_status;
	char* dvd_device;
	char* status;
	char title[33];
	FILE* filehandle = 0;
	int x, y, z;
 
	if(argc == 1)
		dvd_device = "/dev/dvd";
	else
		dvd_device = argv[1];
 
	// Check if device exists
	if(access(dvd_device, F_OK) != 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "cannot access %s\n", dvd_device);
		return 1;
	}
 
	// Open device
	cdrom = open(dvd_device, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
	if(cdrom < 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "error opening %s\n", dvd_device);
		return 1;
	}
 
	drive_status = ioctl(cdrom, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS);
 
	// If the device is a DVD drive, then wait up to 30 seconds for it to be ready (not opening or closing),
	// and then check if there is a disc in the tray.  If there's no disc, exit quietly.
	// If the drive is open, then it just quietly exits.
	if(drive_status > 0) {
		int max_sleepy_time = 30;
		int num_sleepy_times = 0;
		while(ioctl(cdrom, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS) == CDS_DRIVE_NOT_READY && num_sleepy_times < max_sleepy_time) {
			sleep(1);
			num_sleepy_times++;
		}
		if(ioctl(cdrom, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS) != CDS_DISC_OK) {
			close(cdrom);
			return 1;
		}
	}
 
	close(cdrom);
 
	filehandle = fopen(dvd_device, "r");
	if(filehandle == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "could not open device %s for reading\n", dvd_device);
		return 1;
	}
 
	if(fseek(filehandle, 32808, SEEK_SET) == -1) {
		fprintf(stderr, "could not seek on device %s\n", dvd_device);
		fclose(filehandle);
		return 1;
	}
 
	x = fread(title, 1, 32, filehandle);
	if(x == 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "could not read device %s\n", dvd_device);
		fclose(filehandle);
		return 1;
	}
	title[32] = '\0';
 
	fclose(filehandle);
 
	y = sizeof(title);
	while(y-- > 2) {
		if(title[y] == ' ') {
			title[y] = '\0';
		}
	}
 
	for(z = 0; z < strlen(title); z++) {
		printf("%c", title[z]);
	}
	printf("\n");
 
	return 0;
}