Free dvd to mp4 ripper software for linux

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.

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).

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS.
It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes.
Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Enhancements:
- Bitslice DES code for x86-64 that makes use of the 64-bit mode extended SSE2 with 16 XMM registers has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes with x86-64 builds on AMD processors.
- A new make target for FreeBSD/x86-64 has been added.

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.
Main features:
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

Distributed Network John The Ripper is a client/server framework that wraps around a slightly modified version of John The Ripper.
In contrast to the MPI version of John, dnetj allows the use of nodes which are of differing speeds and for nodes which do not run 24/7.
This tool was written for a number of reasons, firstly the MPI version requires an MPI installation on each node, and for the nodes to be configured together and be roughly the same speed. Also, although other distributed password crackers exist (such as djohn or medussa) they all have their own limitations.
The server loads a set of password hashes, and splits the available keyspace into "work units" of a configurable size. The clients connect and retrieve the hashes, as well as a set of work units to process. Once a client has processed some work units, it connects back to the server to submit the completed units as well as any passwords which have been cracked.
Possible uses include eg, running as a background task on all the workstations in an office.
Note, this tool is at an early stage of development and is likely to be very buggy, although it is functional. Bug reports and/or patches are strongly encouraged.
Main features:
- Distributed client/server model, any number of clients can be supported and can be brought up and down at will
- Support for any cipher supported by John 1.7.2 (additional cipher patches should be able to be applied normally)
- Keep the changes to John to a minimum, so that patches/updates can still be applied without too much fuss
- Uses the same optimized encryption routines as John
- Cracked hashes are stored in the standard john.pot format, so they can be displayed with john -show
- Passwd files sent to clients are sanitised (only the hash is sent, other fields from the passwd file are removed)
- Capability for auto client registration
- Code is intentionally kept clean to aid porting
Supported Platforms
Dnetj has been tested on the following systems:
- Linux/x86
- Linux/amd64
- Linux/sparc
- MacOSX/PPC
- MacOSX/Intel
- Solaris/x86
Version restrictions:
- Clients will sometimes crash if unable to connect to the server for a long period of time.
- Work unit size is limited to a 32bit integer number of crypts (ie: 4294967296)
- Node performance calculations wrap once the node has performed more than 4294967296 crypts, so nodes may appear to be much slower than they truly are.
- Doesnt work with NTLM, as the NTLM hash is stored in a different field of the passwd file.
- Traffic is sent in plain text (this makes debugging easier at this early stage of development)
- Makefile is very basic, and has no configure script, compilation on Solaris requires adding -lnsl -lsocket to the compile command.
Enhancements:
- Basic functionality is implemented, and dnetj is usable, but there are many things still to be implemented and a lot more testing is needed.

DVD BacKup Express is a small Kommander Script to create a GUI for dvdbackup.

I made it because it can be run on any platform with kommander installed and dvdbackup available (which may be more platforms than kdvdbackup or other binary frontends are available for)

There is a lot of room for improvement here. Feel free to spruce it up a bit and send me the new .kmdr file and i will update this.

Q DVD-Authors goal is to provide a complete DVDAuthoring solution for Linux with the emphasis of ease of use and a complete set of functionality.
Main features:
- You can generate the main menu.
- You can generate Sub Menus
- You can generate Buttons
- You can scale, color, stretch, twist and shout each object
- You can give each menu multiple sound tracks (not yet perfect though).
- You can import your own layers for Highlighted and for Selected Mask and combine it with the created objects
- You can generate a dvd-slideshow
- You can create a full blown DVD without knowing the command line tools
- You can modify every generated command before executing and generating the DVD
- You can generate MovieMenus
- You can generate MovieButtons
- You can modify the generated xml files within the GUI
- You can contribute to qdvdauthor.
- Thats it for now !!!
Enhancements:
- Translated into Esperanto.
- Reorganized the main window.
- Added library of frames / buttons.
- Fixed issues with 16 bit color depth
- Some improvements to QPlayer.
- Improved ShadowObjects.
- Added MenuSlide - dialog.

TheLastRipper is an audio stream ripper for Last.fm.

TheLastRipper can save Last.fm streams to mp3s, while downloading album cover, appending ID3v1 tags and organizing you music after Artist/Album/Track.

TheLastRipper will also help you generate playlists from the data available from you Last.fm account. TheLastRipper requires a Last.fm login, you can regsiter for free at http://last.fm/

Please note that recordings of radio streams, may NOT be legal, we recommend that you investegate your local laws, before using TheLastRipper.