KungFu DVD Ripper is a GStreamer based DVD ripper.

KungFu creates backups of your DVDs, saving them as .oggs on your hard drive. It encodes the backup using patent-free codecs, Theora for video and Vorbis for audio.

KungFu is not designed for producing backups that fit within a certain file size (say, for burning onto CD); instead, it is designed to produce backups of consistent quality while maintaining the lowest average file size possible (for building a video library on your hard drive).

dvd+rw-tools project makes it possible to burn DVD images created by "dvdauthor" or "mkisofs" to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW disks, replacing "cdrecord-proDVD" in many cases.

The package contains "growisofs" to burn DVD images or create a data DVD on the fly, "dvd+rw-format" to format a DVD+RW, "dvd+rw-mediainfo" to give details about DVD disks, and some programs to control the write speed and obtain information from DVD-RAM.

3gp movie wizard is a small perl/kommander script that helps you to convert almost any movie format to 3gp movie, suitable for watching on the modern mobile phones (tested only on Motorola V360 but should work with any mobile with 3gp support and 176 pixel wide screen).

It should be extremely easy to use, yet offer advanced options such as a good subtitle support and video equalizer.

restore CD/DVD allows you to create a CD or DVD that can be used to backup whole hard disk partitions from any OS and restore them without user interaction.

restore CD/DVD can be used in a manner similar to vendor-provided rescue CDs included with new computers, but with all your own settings.

DVD Manager provides an easy-to-use Web-based DVD management tool.

DVD Manager is an e107 CMS plugin. This plugin will enable users to manage their DVD collection and show it to other members via the Web whether it is online or offline.

M3U Ripper is a Firefox extension that allows you to rip the contents of an m3u, wmx, or ram playlist file link by right clicking on the link and selecting the "Rip Playlist Contents..." option from the popup menu. The option will only appear if the URL ends with the proper file extension.

All the URLs in the M3U file are downloaded via the Firefox download manager to the default download directory or the one specified in the M3U Ripper options. You can also optionally have M3U Ripper create a sub directory with the playlist file name, create the remote playlist file, create a local playlist file, and filter URLs within the playlist files via regular expressions.

cdrtools DVD Extensions adds DVD support to cdrtools.

OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools 2.0 is a opensource extension to add DVD support to Jörg Schillings cdrtools package.

A patch for cdrtools-2.0 is created and is actually a translation of a patch which can be found on abcpages.com. That patch is based upon cdrtools 1.11. The patch given here is based upon cdrtools-2.00.tar.gz.

The objective is to give cdrtools dvd extensions without imposed limits, and also to have a Open Source solution to burn dvds. Currently DVD-R(W) support is added. As a convenience also SRPM and RPM packages for several RPM based Linux distrosare given. Heres a usefull short HOWTO on setting up and using your CD/DVD writer for the first time, in case you detect problems.

For DVD+R(W) see other projects. For instance checkout dvd+rw-tools. I wrote a small HOWTO on how to write SAO/DAO dvd isos on DVD+R using growisofs. Recently OSS DVD functionality has been expanded with DVD+RW and DVD+R DL burning, with the release of cdrtools-2.01.01a01-ossdvd.patch.bz2.

Whats New in This Release:

· This patch is for cdrtools 2.01.01a05 and is adjusted to work with Linux kernel 2.6.12 or higher and can be compiled with GCC 4.0.x.
· The rawio patch using libcap was integrated and the scsibug patch is now redundant as it has been integrated into cdrtools.
· The RPMs and SRPMs were updated for Mandriva 2006.0.

DVD-Baker project is a small suite of programmes designed that can turn your image collection into a DVD.

Your image collection can be stored in a web gallery such as Menalto Gallery G2.

Formerly known as gallery2-to-dvd, DVD-Baker has evolved from a brute-force (hack) bash script to a php/bash combination that allows you to bake your DVD on a computer other than your webserver.

Here are some key features of "DVD Baker":

· Menu system based on the root and branch albums/folders
· Slideshows made from the images in each leaf album using dvd-slideshow
· An albums highlight is embedded in its corresponding menu
· Subtitles for each image (switchable)
· Customisable image durations and transition effects
· Autoplay after menu timeout plays each slideshow sequentially
· Random autoplay (optional) if using dvdauthor 0.6.12
· Options menu (optional) for toggling subtitles, autoplay and repeat modes
· Either NTSC or PAL video formats
· DVD-compliant MPEG movies can be included
· High or low quality modes

How DVD-Baker works

Its as simple as RECIPE => BAKE => BURN !!!

1. Prepare the recipe:
For Menalto Gallery G2:

g2-dvd-recipe.php needs to be placed in the base directory of your G2 site.

2. Baking the ingredients:

Running dvd-baker will produce all the slideshows and menus as specified by the recipe.

A file called dvdauthor.xml will be produced describing all those menus and slideshows, and how they work together.

3. Burning the DVD:

If you didnt specify the -d option for dvd-baker, then:

$ dvdauthor -x dvdauthor.xml

To burn the dvd, use your preferred burning application to create a DVD-Video from the resultant ./DVD directory.

Whats New in This Release:

· A few important features have been added.
· The most requested may be the ability to specify the gallery album to bake (rather than the users root album), and the ability to specify an album to use to create a DVD leader (a title played before the root menu is shown).
· Also included is an optional Options Menu System, which can be accessed by pressing the SUBTITLE button (or F3 in gxine) to toggle options such as SUBTITLES, AUTOPLAY, and REPEAT during playback.
· Minor cleanups and bugfixes are included.

Molphin - DVD Copy makes it easy to backup your DVDs from your home TV-DVD-Recorder to your PC.

FDMS-3 Ripper is a Perl program for extracting the tracks from the FDMS-3 filesystem. I recently bought a Fostex FD-8 multitrack hard disk recorder for recording music. It works great, but I was disappointed to discover that, although it uses a standard external SCSI hard disk, there was no way to "rip" the recorded tracks from the hard drive to my PC over the SCSI port. The alternatives were to use the analog-out to re-record each track using my soundcard (resulting in loss of quality and loss of synch between tracks), or buying a $500 ADAT card for my PC.

I decided that I would try to figure out a way to rip the music directly over the SCSI port. The FD-8 uses a proprietary Fostex filesystem, FDMS-3. I decided to hook it up to my PC and probed the drive. I was able to figure out the basic layout of the filesystem pretty quickly. Note: this is designed to hard disks formatted in the FDMS-3 "Mastering" mode, which stores the audio data in uncompressed format.

In order to use the program, you will need to take the hard disk that has the FDMS-3 filesystem on it and hook it up to your PC (mine is a SCSI drive -- dont know if this will work with one of the internal IDE drives you can hook up to the FD-8). Make sure that Linux can see the drive (dont try to mount it, though!). You might want to have a look at SCSI-2.4-HOWTO to get the drive recognized. My external hard disk is located at "/dev/sda", but yours could end up elsewhere.

Next, you need to make sure you have the following on your system: perl, sox and fileutils (for the "dd" utility). Security Warning Unfortunately, this program presents significant security issues, so be careful with it. The script needs to be able to access the hard disk directly, so you can either run it as root (not safe), or change the permissons for the hard disk device (in my case, "/dev/sda"). Run the program with "./fdms3rip /dev/sda" (substituting the actual location of your hard disk).

This will list all of the programs present on the hard disk. Then, run it again with the number of the program you want to fetch off the hard disk: "./fdms3rip /dev/sda 5" to get all of the recorded tracks for program number 5. After waiting a bit, you should now have a bunch of WAV files on your Linux machine. Warning This program will create and erase files with the names "dir" and "header" in the directory it is run from. It would be best to run this program from a clean directory, just to make sure there are no problems.

RSS Ripper project is a set of Python scripts that rewrites RSS feeds as required for better ease of use. After the rip and rewrite, the new RSS feed is uploaded to your FTP server for your own private re-subscription.

Example Usage:

Rename digg_ripper.py-dist

mv digg_ripper.py-dist digg_ripper.py

Edit the FTP values at the top of the script to point to your own FTP.

FTP_HOST = example.com
FTP_USER = username
FTP_PASS = password
FTP_DIR = ~/path/to/public_html

Run it:

python digg_ripper.py

or

./digg_ripper.py

You may want to add a cron job:

0 * * * * /path/to/rss_ripper/digg_ripper.py >/dev/null 2>&1

And finally you can subscribe to your own custom rss feed.

Winki The Ripper aims to be the easiest program for video encoding. It is actually just a graphical frontend for GNOME written in python to command line tools like mencoder, oggenc, mkvtoolnix, mplayer and lsdvd.

Please be advised that the use of some of the tools you need for "Winki the Ripper" may not be legal in some countries. Please check this out yourself for the country you live in. We strongly advise not to use illegal tools, but it is not our job to make sure in which country which of the possibly needed tools may be forbidden or restricted.

Here are some key features of "Winki the Ripper":

Supported input formats

· DVD
· VCD/SVCD
· Multimedia file (does not work very well still)

Supported output formats

· VCD/SVCD (limited to 1 video, 1 audio and no subtitle streams)
· Multimedia matroska or ogm file (limited to 1 video, 3 audio and 3 subtitle streams)
· Multiple chunk output
· Predefined and custom size output chunks
· Easy crop detection
· Preview settings before rip
· Bulgarian, German, Polish and Spain translations

XMMS Plugin for Ogle DVD Player is an XMMS plugin, that allows it to play DVDs, using Ogle DVD Player as a backend.

All this packages are original and I didnt make any modifications :

a52dec-x.x.x
jpeg-x
libdvdcss-x.x.x
libdvdread-x.x.x
libxml2-x.x.x
mad-x.x.x
ogle-x.x.x

1.) To install all type ./install

2.) To clean all type ./distclean

3.) Check if there is a dvd device (/dev/dvd)

4.) To play DVD make a plain file with extension .dvd (i.e. Ogle.dvd) and open it with XMMS.

RipOff is a GTK+ based CD ripper for Linux (and hopefully for other Unix systems once some testing and fixing have been done) that has a simple interface, CDDB lookups, and a plugin-based encoder architecture.

RipOff CD Ripper attempts to appeal to those users who want a non-GNOME dependent CD ripper with a simple interface, or users who just dont like the interfaces of the other GTK+ CD rippers.

Whats New in This Release:

· Added HTTP_PROXY Functionality
· Fixed a bug where for newer versions of GTK "about" dialogue windows were not closing
· FLAC plugin now supports FLAC 1.1.3
· Added an icon for RipOff
· Miscellaneous code cleanups

MMSRIP is a pure useless program which allows you to save on your hard-disk the content being streamed by an MMS server.

This program has been written for personnal use, so dont blame me if you think I am stupid doing such tool for the others.

MMS Ripper project should run on every POSIX compliant Operating System, but I cant give you any complete list.

MMSRIP is a client for the proprietary protocol MMS://.

It actually saves to a file the content being streamed. Please remember that this is not intended for real use, its existence is only and must only be documentary.

Whats New in This Release:

· This release introduces many improvements and bugfixes such as a workaround for recalcitrant MMS servers, a switch which enables debug output and the display of the ripping speed.
· You may also compile MMSRIP on Solaris, Cygwin, and Win32 now.