Open Source Linux 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.

SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can also play YouTube videos. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will be resumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume... SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play YouTube videos subtitles. Note: for those people complaining about malware in the windows installer: be sure you download SMPlayer from the official website. Our installer is completely safe and free of malware.

NicePlayer is a fullscreen, borderless multi-engine player designed for playing movies on the computer. It features full screen or border-less floating windows, convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies, on the fly playlist creation and more.

*** 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

DVDx 4.0 is a very easy to use audio/video encoder and a powerful DVD copier. Read DVDs and audio/video files, encode to popular video formats: (S)VCD/CVD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, MP3, MP4/AAC etc.

Qt based application for GNU/Linux to print lightScribe discs. Labels are stored in easy to understand/edit XML format. You can print CDDB data on labels (see HOWTO in documentation section).

HandBrakeはオープンソースで開発されている、マルチプラットフォーム/マルチスレッド対応のビデオフォーマット変換ツールです。GPLで提供されており、Mac OS XやLinux、Windowsで動作します。 HandBrake is an open source, multi-platform/multi-threaded video format conversion tool. It is GPLed and runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.

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.

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.

GnomeBaker is a CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop. I am considering closing the project, please mail me at mario.danic AT gmail.com if you have any concerns about that.

This is DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI

Advanced shell script for encoding DVDs, Blu-rays or video files to the H.264 format using the encoding utility MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front-end to MEncoder and various audio encoders and container muxers. h264enc is no longer actively developed. Please ty out: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffx264/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffhevc/

This project is a simple GUI wrapper for lsdvd and vobcopy. It allows you to copy DVD vobs to a single vob file, suitable for transcoding to your favourite video format. Check out the wiki for more http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/streamcap

A wizard-style GUI frontend to MEncoder, for creating backup copies of DVD disks to XviD format. The wizard is designed to be very easy to use, no technical knowledge required. The optimal settings are autodetected and should produce high quality output.

use HandBrakeCLI w/ presets instead (https://handbrake.fr) == old description == undvd is dvd ripping made *simple* with an easy interface to mencoder with sensible default settings that give good results. For those times you just want to rip a movie and not consider thousands of variables.

This is a frontend to ffmpeg and standard VCD/DVD ripping creation programs written in perl-gtk2. It is designed to enable (as seperate processes) ;VCD/DVD ripping;Any Media-transcoding that ffmpeg supports ;DVD creation

MOUvie Converter is a little movie converter script for converting different video files on the fly during Right-Klick over one or more Video files in Nautilus. Converts to DVD, VCD, MVCD, SVCD, MSVCD, MPEG-TS, MP4, XviD, WMV7&8 and to PDA, PSP, PS3, ...

A frontend with dialog box that draws (using ncurses) windows onto the screen and can burn data cds, music cds, supports burning DVD-images and data DVDs, support of ripping/encoding of all popular formats

yet another movie manager to organize all your movies stored on harddisk. its main features are: fetch metadata from imdb.com (including covers), smartfolders to keep recent searches persistent, itunes like interface, ...

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.

Aura Media Player aims to be the most advanced cross-platform front end for MPlayer supporting both audio and video playback.

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.