Free dvd software for linux

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.

SimplyMEPIS is a ready to go desktop operating system for PCs and Apple computers that have Intel or AMD 32 or 64 bit processors. SimplyMEPIS project is easier than Windows Vista and intuitive for Windows XP and Windows 98 users. MEPIS includes all of the applications that most users need and want. SimplyMEPIS is designed to replace or work side by side with Vista or XP on PCs. MEPIS offers Apple users an opportunity to have it all: OSX, MEPIS 32 and/or 64, and if necessary Windows running in a virtual machine sandbox.

Warren Woodford of MEPIS has built KDE 4 Beta 1 live DVDs to verify the compatibility of KDE 4 with SimplyMEPIS 7.x. Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions are available. They are about 1 GB each and include all of the KDE 4 applications that are working at this time. KDE 4 Beta 1 is a very early release and is meant for developers, testers, and reviewers. The live DVDs were built using a MEPIS 7.0 Etch core and include the usual MEPIS kernel and hardware compatibility features. Since KDE 4 is functionally different than KDE 3 and also in an early beta state, a minimal KDE 3 installation remains on the disk to facilitate exploration by the user.

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.

K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps.
Copy without menus :
In this case, dvdauthor is used to create a new DVD structure. It is possible to choose the order in which the video sequences are played.
Copy with menus :
As dvdauthor does not make it possible to integrate the original menus, K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream.
The creation of personalized menus has not been renewed in version 1.0.0.
Main features:
- The video stream is compressed to make the DVD fit on 4.7 Gb recordable DVD
- DVD Burning
- Creation of ISO images
- Possibility of selecting the audio tracks and subtitles to be copied
- Title preview (video only)
- Possibility of preserving the original menus

dkop project is a Linux utility program for copying disk files to recordable DVD media. With dkop, you can copy your files to DVD for safekeeping or archival storage, and verify that the copy is good (no read errors). dkop is a free program licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Three kinds of backup are available: full, incremental, and accumulate. A full backup copies all specified files and leaves no other files on the DVD. An incremental backup copies only those files needed to make a prior dkop DVD match the disk files exactly: only new or changed files are copied. This is normally much faster than a full backup (assuming that most files have not changed). An Incremental backup also removes DVD files that are no longer present on the disk. Thus, after an incremental backup, the DVD will exactly match the disk. An accumulate backup will copy new or changed files to the DVD, but will not remove unmatched DVD files.
You select files to be copied using a GUI. You can navigate through the file system and select files or directories to include or exclude at any level in the directory hierarchy. These choices can be saved in a backup job file to automate recurring backups. If files are added or deleted within an included or excluded directory, you need normally take no further action: the next backup will include these changes automatically. You need to revise the backup job file only if you include or exclude new files or directories, or make new exceptions within existing directories (e.g. exclude a file or directory within an included directory).
DVD media can be verified three ways: full, incremental, and thorough. A full verify reads the entire DVD and reports any files having read errors. An incremental verify reads only those files that have been newly recorded by an immediately preceeding backup job. This is usually much faster while still offering a high level of security. A thorough verify reads every file on the DVD and makes a bytewise comparison with the corresponding disk file. This is not really necessary, but is provided as a user assurance measure.
You can list all files on a dkop DVD media, or search for specific files using wildcards. You can compare the DVD with the corresponding backup job file, listing all differences: files that have been created, deleted, or modified since the DVD copy was made.
For disaster recovery or file transfer, dkop has a file restore capability. You can select and restore DVD files to their original directories or somewhere else.
Incremental backups update the same media as full backups. This makes both backup and recovery simple: you do not need to track matching sets of full and incremental backup media, and you do not need to restore files from multiple media in correct sequence.
Command line parameters may be used instead of the GUI interface, for use in shell scripts.
Incremental backup and verify may require less than one minute if only a few megabytes of updates need to be added to the DVD media. For larger jobs, the DVD speed determines the time required. Typical values are 200-400 megabytes per minute.
The download tar file contains the source code, a binary executable that may work as-is, and a complete user guide with some technical information about how dkop works. If the binary does not work, you will need to compile from the source code. This process is simple and is illustrated below.
Enhancements:
- allow retry of a failed DVD within a multiple-DVD backup job
- correct progress tracking for multiple-DVD backup job
- accept job file on command line, per Linux convention

linuX-gamers Live DVD is a bootable medium with a collection of popular 3D games. It contains both the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary Linux drivers and includes the following games:
- BzFLag
- Enemy Territory
- Glest
- Nexuiz
- Sauerbraten
- Torcs
- Tremulous
- True Combat: Elite
- Warsow and World of Padman
Although the live DVD is based on Arch Linux, it does not offer any desktop Linux functionality except gaming.

Open Directory in VLC is just a modified version of the Open in Kaffeine service menu.

I use it to open DVD/VIDEO_TS folders. VLC plays them with menus in tact.