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Here is a quick shell script to use on Mac OS X to make a DVD iso from a VIDEO_TS folder. Save is as “mkdvdiso” and just specify the folder containing the VIDEO_TS folder, not the VIDEO_TS folder itself. You can also override the DVD name and choose between hdiutil (Mac OS X command line utility that uses the DiskImages framework) or mkisofs from the cdrtools package (I used macports to install cdrtools on my OS X 10.6 system).

#!/bin/bash
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
# OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
# IN NO EVENT SHALL NORMAN WALSH OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR
# ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
# TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
# SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
#

usehdiutil=1
usemkisofs=0
dvdname=""

while [ ${#} -gt 0 ]; do
	case "${1}" in
		-h|--hdiutil)
			usehdiutil=1
			usemkisofs=0
			shift
		;;
		-m|--mkisofs)
			usemkisofs=1
			usehdiutil=0
			shift
		;;
		-n|--dvd-name)
			dvdname="${2}"
			shift 2
		;;
		*)
			dvddir="${1}"
			shift
		;;
	esac
done

if [ -z "${dvdname}" ]; then
	dvdname="$(basename "${dvddir}")"
fi

echo -n "Making DVD ISO for ${dvdname} using "
[ ${usehdiutil} -eq 1 ] && echo "hdiutil"
[ ${usemkisofs} -eq 1 ] && echo "mkisofs"

if [ ${usehdiutil} -eq 1 ]; then
	hdiutil makehybrid  -iso -joliet -udf -udf-version 1.02 -default-volume-name "${dvdname}" -o "${dvdname}.iso" "${dvddir}"
fi

if [ ${usemkisofs} -eq 1 ]; then
	mkisofs -f -dvd-video -udf -V "${dvdname}" -o "${dvdname}.iso" "${dvddir}"
fi

Example Usage

mkdvdiso /Volumes/Fry/DVD_VIDEO

will make a image called DVD_IMAGE.iso in the current directory.

mkdvdiso -m -n MY_DVD /Volumes/Fry/DVD_VIDEO

will make a image called MY_DVD.iso in the current directory using mkisofs.

In the spirit of open-source and the precursor to 2 cocoa applications I’ve been toying with over the past 2 years, I give you SSHTunnel Framework (over on github). The goal here is to create a standard framework to be used in commerical, free, and open-source cocoa applications that need to tunnel traffic over SSH. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

It is licensed under the BSD license. Feel free to use, modify, request features, and report bugs all through github.

Ever since iPhone 3.x, my iPhone seems to have a different concept of free space.

Not Enough Free Space ??

Dine-O-Matic is a fun Dashboard widget created by the Iconfactory and yours truly for Mac OS X that randomly selects a place to eat out when you just can’t make up your mind. Your co-workers want to go one place for lunch, but you want to go some place else? No problem, enter your selections into Dine-O-Matic and let the food fates decide!

What’s New in 2

• Custom cuisine categories
• Enable / disable entire categories
• Expanded restaurant information
• Restaurant price filtering
• ‘Weight’ your favorite restaurants
• Google Maps and web integration
• Localized for these languages:
  • German
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Swedish
  • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional

Download Dine-O-Matic

Main Interface

Preferences Interface