Open Source BSD DVD Software

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. DVDStyler provides over 20 DVD menu templates, allowing you to create your own menu designs and photo slideshows. After you select your DVD label name, video quality, video format, aspect ratio, and audio format, you can select a template to add video materials to. DVDStyler's interface supports drag-and-drop so you can add project buttons and movies around with ease. Some basic video editing operations such as trimming and cropping are also available.

VLC is an open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is simple, fast, and powerful. It plays everything, files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. VLC plays most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. And VLC is hassle free with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking.

*** The development started again in 2024 on github, give me a star to give it visibility please, the project is getting bigger and I need other people to join it to keep developing it. *** https://github.com/colossus73/imagination *** Imagination is a lightweight and simple DVD slide show maker written in C language and built with the GTK+3 toolkit and Cairo featuring 69 transitions. It requires the ffmpeg encoder and libsox to export the slideshow.

An LPCM multiplex/demultiplex utility for DVD-Video with md5 verification. Creates full-resolution "audio-only" dvd-video discs from wav/flac filesets, and extracts unencrypted LPCM audio from dvd-video to wav/flac.

tool to rip DVDs from the command line

QtlMovie is a graphical frontend to FFmpeg, DVD Author, telxcc, CCExtractor, mkisofs and growisofs. QtlMovie is not a general purpose frontend to FFmpeg, so many of them already exist. QtlMovie focuses on a small number of tasks such as the generation of DVD or iPad movie files from any video file or DVD. The unique feature of QtlMovie is the ability to correctly handle most types of subtitles: DVD, DVB, SRT, SSA/ASS, Teletext, Closed Captions and burn them into the output video in one click.

thoggen is a DVD backup program based on GStreamer/Gtk+. It encodes into ogg/theora video files, but additional formats (avi, matroska + mpeg4/xvid/mp2/mp3) are planned for the future. thoggen aims to provide a clean and easy to use interface.

This is DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI

Command-line tools for movie subtitles in SubRip (.srt files) and MicroDVD format (.sub files). 'srtshift/udvdshift' can adjust the subtitles by shifting them to the beginning or to the end. 'srtrate' does the same by changing the supposed frame

MPGPatcher is a command line tool to change video basics (resolution/size, framerate, aspect ratio, bitrate) in mpg-video files. Patches the video headers only, does no reencoding.

AutoCache is an XBMC add-on that automatically copies network media content to the local machine on playback. Files are locally cached as fast as possible, ensuring continuous playback if the network connection goes down.

Babel.TV started life as a desktop shell and replacement MythTV frontend, aiming to be a light, fast and elegant entertainment platform. It has grown to encompass instant communication, Web services and support for popular playback devices and phones.

BashBurn is a collection of bashscripts written to make CD/DVD-burning in the console easier, without the need for a lot of libraries like GTK or QT for a pretty GUI. This is a placeholder page. Go to the homepage to download the latest version or access the code.

A set of command line tools for indexing CD/DVD media: cdindex is for indexing, cdfind - for search (similar to Unix find) and cdbrowse is a "plugin" for MC allowing to browse the database. Data are stored in a special binary format.

CDRBQ is a disco burning application. Being written in TCL/TK, it works on all platforms, including Linux and variants, and Microsoft Windows through cygwin. It is derived from cdrtoaster project at the desperation of losing contact to its admin.

This simple shell script creates 12 symlinks in /dev pointing to a user specified device as follows: /dev/cd /dev/cdr /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw /dev/cdrecorder /dev/cdwriter /dev/dvd /dev/dvdr /dev/dvdrom /dev/dvdrw /dev/dvdrecorder /dev/dvdwriter

DVB2DVD creates a set of DVD images out of a set of MPEG-2 DVB-recordings.

DVD backup tool for the GNOME desktop. Allows you to back up a DVD movie to a similar capacity media or back up a title of a DVD to a normal 4.7 GB DVD disk, shrinking the video if needed. You can also back up a title to two disks to prevent shrinking.

Collection of bash scripts that operate DVD ripping tools. Programs: ripdvd - create an MKV, OGM or MP4 file container very easily ripdvdcrop - detect crop for ripping dvd ripdvdtest - perform a ripping test of a few seconds Suggestion: use the SVN.

A set of bash scripts to fully automate the creation of a video DVD under Linux. Creates a DVD-Filestructure with graphical Menus, Chapters etc.

A BASH script that will burn DVD movies from different sources like .iso/img/nrg or VIDEO_TS by utilizing FOSS tools like growisofs, nrg2iso and mkisofs.

Filmliste is a PHP enabled media management system which you can use to track your DVDs, BluRay discs or even VHS cassettes. It has a feature called "coverview" which displays your movies just the way they would look on a shelf.

FlickList is an organization tool that will take an unorganized mess of a DVD wallet and turn it into a very organized, very informative store of information on your computer.

An easy DVD ripper and DIVX four-pass encoder for the GNOME desktop. GUI for mencoder, lsdvd and vobcopy. (Sencillísimo ripeador de DVDs y compresor a DIVX de 4 pasadas. Interfaz gráfica para mencoder, lsdvd y vobcopy)

flickThing is a php-script that keeps catalogs of your movies and tracks who you lend your copy of Star Wars DVD and how long ago.