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).

Molphin - DVD Copy makes it easy to backup your DVDs from your home TV-DVD-Recorder to your PC.

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+rw-tools project makes it possible to burn DVD images created by "dvdauthor" or "mkisofs" to DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW disks, replacing "cdrecord-proDVD" in many cases.

The package contains "growisofs" to burn DVD images or create a data DVD on the fly, "dvd+rw-format" to format a DVD+RW, "dvd+rw-mediainfo" to give details about DVD disks, and some programs to control the write speed and obtain information from DVD-RAM.

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.

cdrtools DVD Extensions adds DVD support to cdrtools.

OSS DVD extensions for cdrtools 2.0 is a opensource extension to add DVD support to Jörg Schillings cdrtools package.

A patch for cdrtools-2.0 is created and is actually a translation of a patch which can be found on abcpages.com. That patch is based upon cdrtools 1.11. The patch given here is based upon cdrtools-2.00.tar.gz.

The objective is to give cdrtools dvd extensions without imposed limits, and also to have a Open Source solution to burn dvds. Currently DVD-R(W) support is added. As a convenience also SRPM and RPM packages for several RPM based Linux distrosare given. Heres a usefull short HOWTO on setting up and using your CD/DVD writer for the first time, in case you detect problems.

For DVD+R(W) see other projects. For instance checkout dvd+rw-tools. I wrote a small HOWTO on how to write SAO/DAO dvd isos on DVD+R using growisofs. Recently OSS DVD functionality has been expanded with DVD+RW and DVD+R DL burning, with the release of cdrtools-2.01.01a01-ossdvd.patch.bz2.

Whats New in This Release:

· This patch is for cdrtools 2.01.01a05 and is adjusted to work with Linux kernel 2.6.12 or higher and can be compiled with GCC 4.0.x.
· The rawio patch using libcap was integrated and the scsibug patch is now redundant as it has been integrated into cdrtools.
· The RPMs and SRPMs were updated for Mandriva 2006.0.

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.

RoFreeSBIE Live DVD is the first Live DVD based on FreeBSD 6.1 operating system.

Here are some key features of "RoFreeSBIE Live DVD":

NEW FREEBSD PORTBROWSER
Includes Portbrowser, an efficient package manager with a simple way to install applications (more than 14500 FreeBSD applications from ports or binary packages).

SCRIPTS
Find under the RofreeSbie Tools a wide-range of powerful scripts. From Internet and antivirus configurations to all partitions detection, this is a must-have tool for average BSD users.

TEST YOUR HARDWARE
Testing your hardware compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1 before installing couldnt be easier with a Live CD/DVD like RoFreeSBIE.

SECURITY
High level of security thanks to UNIX solid as a rock, Clamav antivirus, F-Prot antivirus and a firewall. Feel safe with RoFreeSBIE.

Let others commercial operating systems lose your root password in 20 minutes or a kid at home install a trojan in your computer.

INTELLIGENT UPDATES
Because RoFreeSBIE is FreeBSD based, it uses intelligent ways of updating: cvsup and recompiling the base system or binary patches.

If you use cvsup, you can track daily changes on the FreeBSD base system and easily obtain a new FreeBSD release when it appears.

LINUX SUPPORT
RoFreeSBIE runs Linux applications with high performance and speed. Why should you have to choose between BSD and Linux, when you can get the best of both?

CLONE PARTITIONS
With clone.sh youll be able to make a compressed image of a chosen partition from your HDD and store it on another writable partition.

ROFREESBIE MEANS...
Romanian Free System Burned In Economy, its main version being English. KDE support is available in:

Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Russian and German. More languages will be included soon due to your help. Thanks.

Whats New in This Release:

· Minor bugs corrected

restore CD/DVD allows you to create a CD or DVD that can be used to backup whole hard disk partitions from any OS and restore them without user interaction.

restore CD/DVD can be used in a manner similar to vendor-provided rescue CDs included with new computers, but with all your own settings.

Bluewhite64 Linux is an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the AMD64 architecture. This means that it runs on AMD64 based servers and computers.

Bluewhite64 Linuxs goal of this port is to mimic the user experience of the Intel x86 distribution at its best. I will try to include the same software, configuration scripts and so on. If you notice any differences between Bluewhite64 and the original Slackware, dont hesitate to email me.

Whats New in This Release:

· Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Live DVD runs entirely from DVD and includes all packages from Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 (except the Y and KDEi software series) and the updated packages from the patches directory. Also, in addition to this version, I have included extra packages created by the Bluewhite64 Linux community. The DVD includes the latest stable SMP Linux kernel 2.6.22.1 with advanced features. It is designed to bring a modern Linux desktop to 64-bit architectures, including the modularized X.Org 7.2 with Compiz and Beryl, the award-winning KDE 3.5.7, OpenOffice.org 2.2, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Swaret 1.6.3 and Qtswaret 0.1.5-3 package managers....

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.

DVD Backup is an unix shell script providing functionality for backuping files and databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) on DVD discs.

DVD Backup supports multisession and incremental backups. Mail notification is also supported.

Whats New in This Release:

· This release sends email notifications using netcat instead of telnet.
· There are more details about communication with the SMTP server, and configurable excluded files patterns.

DVD-Baker project is a small suite of programmes designed that can turn your image collection into a DVD.

Your image collection can be stored in a web gallery such as Menalto Gallery G2.

Formerly known as gallery2-to-dvd, DVD-Baker has evolved from a brute-force (hack) bash script to a php/bash combination that allows you to bake your DVD on a computer other than your webserver.

Here are some key features of "DVD Baker":

· Menu system based on the root and branch albums/folders
· Slideshows made from the images in each leaf album using dvd-slideshow
· An albums highlight is embedded in its corresponding menu
· Subtitles for each image (switchable)
· Customisable image durations and transition effects
· Autoplay after menu timeout plays each slideshow sequentially
· Random autoplay (optional) if using dvdauthor 0.6.12
· Options menu (optional) for toggling subtitles, autoplay and repeat modes
· Either NTSC or PAL video formats
· DVD-compliant MPEG movies can be included
· High or low quality modes

How DVD-Baker works

Its as simple as RECIPE => BAKE => BURN !!!

1. Prepare the recipe:
For Menalto Gallery G2:

g2-dvd-recipe.php needs to be placed in the base directory of your G2 site.

2. Baking the ingredients:

Running dvd-baker will produce all the slideshows and menus as specified by the recipe.

A file called dvdauthor.xml will be produced describing all those menus and slideshows, and how they work together.

3. Burning the DVD:

If you didnt specify the -d option for dvd-baker, then:

$ dvdauthor -x dvdauthor.xml

To burn the dvd, use your preferred burning application to create a DVD-Video from the resultant ./DVD directory.

Whats New in This Release:

· A few important features have been added.
· The most requested may be the ability to specify the gallery album to bake (rather than the users root album), and the ability to specify an album to use to create a DVD leader (a title played before the root menu is shown).
· Also included is an optional Options Menu System, which can be accessed by pressing the SUBTITLE button (or F3 in gxine) to toggle options such as SUBTITLES, AUTOPLAY, and REPEAT during playback.
· Minor cleanups and bugfixes are included.