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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Whats New in This Release:

· 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.

John The Ripper MPI is an updated version of Ryan Lims patch for john the ripper to support MPI, in addition to a large number of third party patches to support additional ciphers and such.

MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a single system, or a cluster of systems for cracking passwords using john the ripper. Incredibly usefull in these days of multi core processors.

A compatible MPI implementation is required.

Benchmarks

Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo, 2.16GHz, MacBook Pro MacOSX
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi4, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2]... DONE
Many salts: 3433087.00 c/s real, 3636739.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 2852658.00 c/s real, 3021898.00 c/s virtual

Dual AMD Opteron 250 (2.2ghz), Gentoo Linux 64bit
John MPI - Version 1.7.2-bp17-mpi, 2 threads
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16]... DONE
Many salts: 2132632.00 c/s real, 2139034.00 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 1951692.00 c/s real, 1957552.00 c/s virtual

Limitations:

· If you use Gentoo, make sure you compile mpich2 _WITHOUT_ the "threads" use flag, otherwise john-mpi will fail to compile with undefined references to MPIU_Free and MPIU_Malloc
· If you use OpenMPI instead of mpich2, the SIGHUP signal doesnt get passed to john. It is necessary to send a SIGUSR1 instead.

Whats New in This Release:

· Support for SIGUSR1 as well as SIGHUP, required for use with OpenMPI

Attachment Ripper and Displacement System (aradis) is a filter that removes attachments from email.

The removed attachment is sent to a specified resource for storage. The attachment is replaced with a notice of where the removed attachment may be found.

The filter can also rename filenames for security. The project uses GMime for MIME handling.

Whats New in This Release:

· Anonymous attachments are now given a name according to the MIME type.
· The ability to insert replacement messages as HTML instead of plain text was added.

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.

Here are some key features of "Distributed Network John The Ripper":

· 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

Limitations:

· 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.

Whats New in This Release:

· Basic functionality is implemented, and dnetj is usable, but there are many things still to be implemented and a lot more testing is needed.

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.

Whats New in This Release:

· Many updates and bugfixes were made.

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.

dvd-slideshow makes a DVD-compatible slideshow video with menus from a batch of pictures.

dvd-slideshow project consists of a set of scripts: dvd-slideshow reads a text file list of all the pictures you want in one slideshow and creates a DVD-compatible MPEG movie with your audio tracks and specified timing.

It supports effects such as fades, crops, and the Ken Burns effect. dvd-menu makes a top-level DVD menu with the output files from dvd-slideshow. dir2slideshow makes a dvd-slideshow input file from a directory of pictures.

gallery2slideshow makes the input file from your Gallery album. jigl2slideshow makes the input file from your jigl album. The output is fed through dvdauthor to create DVDs.

Whats New in This Release:

· This release fixes a few major bugs with newer versions of ImageMagick (6.2.2 and higher) that showed up primarily when using the KenBurns effect.
· There are other bugfixes and improvements that should make this more compatible with the wide variety of Linux systems out there.
· Note that the title keyword has changed, so if you re-run your old slideshows, "title" will have to be changed to "titlebar" for the same behavior.
· The title keyword just displays the text in the middle of the screen.

DVD-Vault provides an achive software to manage DVD jukeboxes (SCSI medium changers).

DVD-Vault is an implementation of a filesystem archive that makes a DVD SCSI library with multiple pieces of DVD-R or DVD-RAM media look like a single large file system.

A library with 1000 pieces of 4.7Gbyte media can be addressed as a 4700GByte file system with SCSI-robotic mounting and unmounting of media as required.

Users of UniTree (HPSS), AMASS, METIOR, and MagnaVault may recognize how this program works.

It has been tested with an ASACA 250 and 1450 and the Sony/Kubota 64-slot PD (blu-ray) library.

Whats New in This Release:

· Binary and source code have been broken apart into two different files.
· DMAPI code now "punches" holes in files, rather than truncating the files. This makes file sizes transparent, which is really helpful for Windows clients.
· disk_scrub has been implemented to reclaim optical disk space when files are deleted.
· The MCLIB routines have support for Qualstar tape libraries.
· Batch_migration is in the binary RPM to support WORM media (BD-R, DVD+R).
· Tape stage support is in the stage program
· Purge is replaced with purgefile to support the new DMAPI code.