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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Here are some key features of "dvd::rip":

· 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.

Whats New in This Release:

· A small screen layout mode was added, which makes dvd::rip fit on small screens like 15" widescreen notebooks.

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

Audio::Ao is a Perl wrapper for the Ao audio library.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Ao qw(:all);

initialize_ao;
my $device = open_live(default_driver_id(), 16, $rate, $channels,
is_big_endian(), {});
while (#have data) {
play($device, $data_buffer, $len_of_buffer);
}
close_ao($device($device));
shutdown_ao;

Provides access to Libao, "a cross-platform library that allows programs to output PCM audio data to the native audio devices on a wide variety of platforms." Libao currently supports OSS, ESD, ALSA, Sun audio, and aRts.

Audio::M4P is a Perl module that provides M4P/MP4/M4A QuickTime audio music format modules.

M4P is a QuickTime protected audio file format.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::M4P::QuickTime;

my $mp4file = "file.m4p";
my $qt = new Audio::M4P::QuickTime(file => $mp4file);
my $tags = $qt->GetMetaInfo;
print "Artist is $tags->{ARTIST}n" if $tags->{ARTIST};


use Audio::M4P::Decrypt;

my $outfile = mydecodedfile;
my $deDRMS = new Audio::M4P::Decrypt;
$deDRMS->DeDRMS($mp4file, $outfile);

See also the individual pod documentation for Audio::M4P::QuickTime
and Audio::M4P::Decrypt.

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.

Audio::ConvTools is a API to convert audio files from/to mp3 ogg and wav.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::ConvTools;
use Audio::ConvTools qw/:DEFAULT :Tmp :Log/;

$status = ogg2mp3(file.ogg);
$status = ogg2wav(file.ogg);
$status = ogg2wav(in.ogg, out.wav);
$status = mp32ogg(file.mp3);
$status = mp32wav(file.mp3);
$status = mp32wav(in.mp3, out.wav);
$status = wav2ogg(file.wav);
$status = wav2ogg(in.wav, out.ogg);
$status = wav2mp3(file.wav);
$status = wav2mp3(in.wav, out.mp3);

Audio::ConvTools::logMsg(This is a log message);
Audio::ConvTools::errMsg(This is an error message);

$tmp = Audio::ConvTools::getTmpFile(.wav);
Audio::ConvTools::destroyTmpFile($tmp);

Audio::Moosic is a Moosic client library for Perl.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Moosic;

$moo = Audio::Moosic::Unix->new();

$moosic->append(/home/me/somewhat.ogg);
$moosic->play;
print $moosic->current, "n";
$moosic->pause;
...

Audio::Moosic acts as a client for the musical jukebox programm Moosic (http://nanoo.org/~daniel/moosic/) by Daniel Pearson.

Using Audio::Moosic you can connect to a moosic server either via an UNIX socket or an INET socket.