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dovi_tool is a CLI tool combining multiple utilities for working with Dolby Vision.

The dolby_vision crate is also hosted in this repo, see README for use as a Rust/C lib.
The C compatible library is also known as libdovi, refer to the same document for building/installing.

 

Building

Toolchain

The minimum Rust version to build dovi_tool is 1.79.0.

Dependencies

On Linux systems, fontconfig is required.
Alternatively, system fonts can be bypassed by building with --no-default-features --features internal-font.

Release binary

To build release binary in target/release/dovi_tool run:

cargo build --release

 

Usage

dovi_tool [OPTIONS] <SUBCOMMAND>

To get more detailed options for a subcommand

dovi_tool <SUBCOMMAND> --help

All options

All subcommands

More information and detailed examples for the subcommands below.

 

Dolby Vision metadata utilities

dovi_tool provides an important set of tools for analyzing, editing and generating Dolby Vision metadata.

Commands

 

 

 

 

 

HEVC parsing & handling

For working with an HEVC source file, there are multiple options that apply to most commands:

Conversion modes

Other options

Commands

 

 

 

 

 

 

Build artifacts can be found in the Github Actions.
More features may or may not be added in the future.