Free dvd file shrinker software for linux

w3t.org URL Shrinker is a small url generator via right-click. When you want to share a long URL (like on many news articles), just right-click on the page you want to link to and choose "Shorten this URL"; and youll get a super-short URL to use that forwards to the longer one.

The site now includes the ability to use custom URL "tags" like "ff" as in http://w3t.org/?c=ff The next version of the extension should include this new site feature.

gDVDshrink is a very simple application that lets you choose your favourite DVD title, its audio tracks and, hopefully, subtitles in the future, and then recompresses the MPEG-2 video stream quickly so that the newly reauthored DVD fits on an 4.2 GB onle-layer DVD.

Enjoy and send bugs... gDVDshrink uses mplayer for title previewing, lsdvd for getting the information about the source DVD, and vamps for straming and recompressing the final DVD.

AVI TV Episode File Resizer script is not for multiple MOVIE files (only TV) however it can do SINGLE MOVIE files quite nicely. The project was designed to help me fit (resize the file) multiple Xvid TV episodes (entire season) on a single DVD. Most of the time a TV series is almost exactly the same hours, mins, secs.

That enables this script to set the video bitrate the same for every file (episode) being processed to get the desired file size. The calculation is based on the hours, mins, seconds and the desired file size you want. If you correctly enter the time you will end up with a file size VERY close to the value you entered. The episodes will likley vary about 10 secs or so. Try to average that out when you select the episode time

The new files will have the EXACT same name as the old files so the input and output cannot be in the same DIRECTORY.

The "input files" selector can select multiple files so you can encode one or many files.

If you select an entire season (about 25 episodes) of files it could take quite a few hours to complete. The progress bar updates AFTER the completion of the first file and after every file there after. The current file being processed is displayed in the bottom status bar.

Transcode single pass is used to REencode the files.

Each file will be REencoded with MP3 audio bitrate of 96 kbps. The video is REencoded with the Xvid4 codec.

I used this script to go from 230MB to 175MB with good results. That saved me almost 1.4G for the season (25 episodes) and let me get it on a single DVD to play on my stand alone player.

You should try it with a single file first to check the quality and then do a batch job.

There are other tools to do this but this one can be setup and going in less than 1 min.

It takes almost 10 hours to do an entire season (25 episodes) at an episode time of 25 min 30 sec with a target file size of 171MB (ends up being about 174.8MB)

dvdindex is a free, open-source CD/DVD archiving utility to manage a collection of
CDs/DVDs.

It has built-in encryption support and is released under the GPL.

DVDStyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System.
DVDStyler project is free software distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
Main features:
- drag and drop MPEG files directly
- import image file for background
- create NTSC/PAL menus
- place text and images anywhere on the menu screen
- change font/color
- put basic text buttons, change font/color and background color
- copy and paste any menu object
- set chapters for each movie
- change post command for each movie

File is the open source implementation of the file command used on almost every free operating system (OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD) and also on systems that use free software (including OS/2, DOS, MS Windows, etc.).

The file command, if youre not familiar with it, is a command-line tool that tells you in words what kind of data a file contains. Unlike MS-Windows, UNIX and other systems dont rely on filename extentions to tell you the type of a file, but look at the files actual contents. This is, of course, more reliable, but requires a bit of I/O.

The original file command shipped with Bell Labs UNIX but was unavailable in source form to the masses before Ians reimplementation.

This file command (and magic file) was originally written by Ian Darwin (who still contributes occasionally) and is now maintained by a group of developers lead by Christos Zoulas.

Whos using it?

Every known BSD distribution (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin/Mac OS X, etc)
Every known Linux distribution
The Apache httpd server mod_mime_magic module uses the file commands innards to make file type guessing more reliable under Apache HTTPD.

KDE DVD Authoring Wizard will allow you to create a DVD from one or more DVD compatible MPEG-2 files. All you need to do is add one or multiple files to the playlist and answer the questions that follow.
You can add a menu that will contain animated thumbnails of the files in the playlist. Creating a menu is optional.
Main features:
- Playlist editor
- DVD menu with multiple pages
- Animated thumbnails in the menu
- Customizable menu graphics
- Add soundtrack from OGG or MP3
- Antialiased graphics prevent flickering on TV
- Both Widescreen and standard 4:3 support
- ISO DVD Image creation