Free dvd software for linux

Mkdvd is an easy-to-use front-end for several programs which allows simplifies converting most kinds of movies to a DVD which you can watch in your DVD player or give to your friends.

Mkdvd is not a graphical front-end, but it automates the entire task of creating a DVD into one simple command. Mkdvd runs on any UNIX platform, as long as the programs below are available.

Mkdvd is also able to convert PAL movies to NTSC and/or vice versa (even if they are interlaced).

boot-dvd project contains a couple of Perl-scripts that can be used to create a custom DVD-ISO image (to be burned), that contains user selected Linux boot/live-CD images (only ISOLINUX boot loader supported) in a handy GRUB menu.
Enhancements:
- Many updates and bugfixes were made.

TkDVD is a GUI for growisofs, which is a part of dvd+rw-tools. TkDVD project allows burning DVD+R/RW and -R/RW discs easily.
Main features:
- View the current command line passed to growisofs with options and file listing
- Burn DVD from iso images
- Create ISO images from files
- Can overburn DVD
- Support multi-sessions DVD
- Add/delete/exclude file/directories and show current used space
- can keep directory structure
- options to choose iso9660 filesystem extension (like Joliet or RockRidge extensions)
- Prevent burning if used space > DVD+R/RW capacity
- show output of growisofs/mkisofs to view burned % and estimated remaining time
Enhancements:
- A bug when burning a multisession DVD was fixed: the -Z option was passed to growisofs in addition to -M, although just -M is enough.
- The French translation was updated.
- A German translation was added.

myDVDs project is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database.
Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
Enhancements:
- The install script was rewritten.
- The upgrade script now handles nearly all of the manual steps.
- The HTML code has been tweaked.
- Images are now in the themes CSS.
- The login form has been reworked. XML and PDF generation have been fixed.
- The documentation has been updated.

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

dvd2avi is a simple graphical tool to help you backup your DVDs under Linux. After a long period of coding and testing, I finally succeeded to issue well usable and handy version of dvd2avi which I hope will help you.

dvd2avi is meant to help you put together a comandline for conversion from DVD title to AVI divx file. dvd2avi uses mencoder for its fast and reliable job, and lsdvd for getting the information about the source DVD.

DVD2HDD is a GUI for tools to backup your DVDs in Linux. It is written in Gambas.
Main features:
- detects DVD-Video-Discs
- DVD drive speedup
- DVD preview via xine
- Backup the whole DVD on the fly
- Backup the mainmovie on the fly
- joins all vobs to one big vobfile
- detects free space on hdd
- continues the backup if same DVD present (todo)
- burns VIDEO-DVDs
To run the program you have to install Gambas.
Also you need these programs installed on your system:
- xine
- vobcopy
- libdvdcss2
- mkisofs
- growisofs

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
dvd::rip project uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.
Main features:
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (and probably other Unices) and does not depend on anything produced in Redmond - pure Open Source!
- Rip to harddisk, on the fly or from an existent DVD image
- Select audio track(s), viewing angle(s), multitple titles
- Rip as much audio tracks as you like into one AVI/OGG/SVCD file
- Supports nearly all of transcodes video codecs, e.g: divx4, divx5, xvid, xvidcvs, ffmpeg, fame, opendivx and mpeg2enc
- DivX/Xvid multipass encoding
- (S)VCD modes, with multiple audio tracks for SVCD
- Integrated video bitrate calculator based on target size resp. number of discs
- Automatic splitting of the target files for best fit on the specified number of discs
- Several deinterlace filter presets
- Audio AC3 and PCM passthrough
- Audio MP3 encoding
- Audio volume maximizing and/or range compression
- OGG/Vorbis support, quality and bitrate based, adjusting the optimal video bitrate after audio transcoding in quality mode
- WAV file creation from a selected audio track
- Subtitle rendering and vobsub creation
- Support for all transcode video filters, with realtime configuration and video preview
- Live video transcoding preview window
- Chapter mode: one file per chapter
- Use your favorite movie player for preview
- Provide frame clipping, resizing and final clipping
- Powerful auto adjusting of all clip & zoom parameters
- Adjust clipping area using drag and drop
- dvd::rips zoom calculator let you adjust every possible parameter, if you like to do so
- Two resize modes: fast and high quality resizing
- Simple but easy to use CD burning facility
- Last but not least a comprehensive cluster mode, which let you use all your Linux/Unix hardware for parallel encoding.
Enhancements:
- A small screen layout mode was added, which makes dvd::rip fit on small screens like 15" widescreen notebooks.