# quietvoid/dovi_tool

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

Repository: https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dovi_tool
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: hdr, dolby, dolby-vision, dynamic-metadata, ffmpeg, dovi
Last push: 2026-09-02T23:24:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 68, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2128, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 52, "gap_med": 98, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1010, forks 83 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:17.213414+00:00)

## What it is
dovi_tool is a Rust CLI tool combining utilities for working with Dolby Vision metadata, including parsing, editing, generating, muxing, and demuxing RPU data in HEVC streams. It also provides libdovi, a Rust/C library for programmatic Dolby Vision metadata handling.

## Use cases
- extract Dolby Vision RPU metadata from an HEVC file
- inject Dolby Vision metadata into a video
- convert Dolby Vision profile 5 to profile 8.1
- edit or generate Dolby Vision XML metadata into binary RPU
- demux and mux HEVC with Dolby Vision layers
- inspect per-frame Dolby Vision metadata as JSON

## When to choose
- you need to manipulate Dolby Vision dynamic metadata in video files
- you want a fast, scriptable CLI for RPU extraction/injection
- you need a C/Rust library (libdovi) to embed Dolby Vision handling in other tools

## When to avoid
- you only need basic HDR10 processing without Dolby Vision
- you want a GUI video tool rather than a command-line utility
- you need general-purpose video transcoding beyond metadata handling

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, parser, cli, serialization
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, rust, cross-platform
- tags: dolby-vision, hdr, rpu, hevc, dynamic-metadata, libdovi, ffmpeg, video, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- quietvoid/dovi_tool (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:17.213414+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:13:11.143065+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quietvoid/dovi_tool (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:17.213414+00:00, sha 40aeb269c7e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.