Free vcd software for linux

VCD-db is a Free web based software that lets you manage your DVD/VCD/CDs collection on your own website.
VCD-db can easily add new movies with 2 clicks, movie data is automatically fetched for you from IMDB and/or other sources. VCD-db is highly flexible, runs on multiple database platforms such as ....
- MySQL 3.x
- MySQL 4.x
- MSSQL 7 and 2000
- IBM DB2 7.2 and up
- Postgres
- SQLite
Oracle support is in the making and should be available in future release.
VCD-db runs on Unix/Linux machines and Windows machines, and has been tested both on Apache 1.3x and 2.0. VCD-db also runs smoothly on IIS.
VCD-db supports multiple users so your friends can also register on your VCD-db web and start their own catalog, which can then be compared to yours for conveniance.
VCD-db has a built in loan system so you can now easily keep track of all the CDs you lend to friends and family, and even send automatic emails to ask them to return your CDs.
User catalogs can easily be exported and saved in numerious ways, such as Excel, XML and can even be exported and then imported to another VCD-db site without any hassle.
Multiple language support.
VCD-db has already been translated to English, Icelandic, Finnish, German, Dutch, French and Bulgarian.
This is just tip of the iceberg of all the features in VCD-db.
Main features:
- Enable/disable registration
- Switch image storage from database to file-level or vice versa (with all prevoius images conserved)
- Change record counts for display on list pages
- Enable/disable RSS feed from the site
- Enable/disable user RSS feeds
- Enable/disable adult movie support
- Edit mail settings and test them immediately for verification
- Change/add user roles
- Manage users, disable accounts and reset passwords
- Add user defined user properties
- Manage source sites for data retrival
- Add/edit movie categories
- Add/edit media types
- Add/edit cover types
- Associate media types to cover types
- Manage language files
- View site statistics
- Import/Export core site data on XML format

Vcdkutter is a small program based on xreadvcd by Ales Makarov. It provides you options of cutting a video CD dat file from one arbitrary frame to another, which allows you to save individual scenes rather than the entire movie.

The usage is next :
To copy VideoCD :

[satish@agni bash] vcdkutter -vcd test.dat | mtvp -

the option -vcd is used to read VideoCD from CDROM.

To copy file already on HDD :
[satish@agni bash] vcdkutter /home/satish/main.dat /tmp/part.dat | mtvp -

GNU VCDImager is a program for making Video CD (and Super Video CD, a.k.a. SVCD) images out of MPEG movie files.
The images it creates are ready to use with programs which understand BIN/CUE images, such as cdrdao. GNU VCDRip allows for reversing the process, ripping mpeg tracks from (Super) Video CDs.
Main features:
- Free software available under the GNU Public License
- Support for Video CD 1.1 and 2.0 disc formats
- Support for the Super Video CD 1.0 disc format
- Full PBC (playback control) support (play lists, selection lists and end lists)
- Support for segment play items
- Automatic padding of MPEG streams on the fly
- Support for 99-minute (out-of-specification) CD-R media
- Extraction of Video CDs into files (incl. the PBC information)
- Runs on all major UNIX flavors and on Win32
- Use of XML for the description of Video CDs

Basically, its an approach to build a small, cut to the bone, ready and easy to install VDR Linux distribution.
LinVDR is a complete, breathing Linux system smaller than 128 MB with a complete digital Video Disk Recorder (VDR) / Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and several plugins -- listed seperately below.
For easy access we installed additionaly the browser frontend VDR Admin and a Samba share for up- and downloading music or DVD images with Windows clients.
The base system is Debian Woody compatible (only compatible, not Debian Woody itself!) with the DVB driver from Convergence and Klaus Schmidingers unbeated Video Disk Recorder Software VDR.
All this Tom has mixed smoothly together, and I made the install system and installation programme -- suitable for normal users without Linux knowledge.
Enhancements:
VDR Version and Plugins
VDR 1.3.17 with enAIO-Patch and this plugins:
- Autotimer-Edit 0.1.4 new
- DVD-Burn 0.0.5 new
- Clock 0.0.5b1 update
- Console 0.6 update
- DVD 0.3.5b06 (without CSS support)
- EPG-Search 0.0.3 new
- Femon (signal strength) 0.1.6 update
- Games 0.6.1 update
- GraphLCD 0.1.1 update
- GraphTFT 0.0.8 new
- Hello 0.1.0
- Image (Diashow) 0.2.2 update
- LCD-Proc 0.0.10 update
- Mailbox 0.3 update
- Manual 0.0.2 (german only) new
- Media-MVP 0.1.5 new
- Media-MVP-Server new
- M-LCD 0.0.4 update
- MP3 0.9.8 update
- MPlayer 0.9.8 update
- OSD-Demo 0.1.0
- Osd-PiP Plugin 0.0.7 update
- OSD-Teletext 0.3.1 update
- Pilot 0.0.7 new
- PIM 0.0.3 new
- Remote 0.3.2 (for IR receiver of Hauppauge Nexus-s cards) update
- Skin-Curses 0.1.0
- Sky 0.1.1
- Sleeptimer 0.6 update
- Status 0.1.0
- Stream-Dev 0.3.3 update
- Taste 0.0.2b new
- Text2Skin (loadable skins) 0.0.8.1 new
- Timeline 0.8.1
- TV-OnScreen 0.6.0 update
- TVTV 0.1.6
- VBox (ISDN voice mailbox) 0.5.1 update
- (S)VCD 0.0.6c
- VDR-CD (playing audio CDs) 0.0.10 update
- WAP 0.0.6d new
Others
- Multi-Language support (currently German and English)
- Install programm updated
- Setup programm updated
- Kernel 2.6.9 with support for (nearly) all chipsets and network cards updated
- DVB driver CVS 2004-12-03 updated
- VDR Admin 0.97 supporting VDR 1.3.x updated
- MPlayer 1.0pre5
- NoAd 0.4.2
- FBTV updated
- Samba 3.0
- DVD-Author 0.6.10 updated
- convert.pl
- vdrsync
- Editor nano
- Alsa
- USB Keyboard support
- dvd+rw-tools 5.13.4.7.4 (suitable for DVD+R/W and DVD-R/W)
- udftools
- Read-only support for NTFS

AcidRip is a Gtk2::Perl application for ripping and encoding DVDs. It neatly wraps MPlayer and MEncoder, which I think is pretty handy, seeing as MPlayer is by far the best bit of video playing kit around for Linux.
As well as creating a simple Graphical Interface for those scared of getting down and dirty with MEncoders command line interface, It also automates the process in a number of ways:
- Parses DVD into contents tree
- Finds longest title
- Calculate video bitrate for given filesize
- Finds black bands and crops them
- Gives suggestions for improved performance
- Other stuff!
Acidrip is *NOT* an encoding program. It does not do a single bit of encoding by itself. It can not do anything complicated that MEncoder can not do, e.g. output to VCD format etc... Feature requests are always welcome but please be very sure that is within the "jurisdiction" of my program.

Videoconv is a shell-based frontend to mpeg-tools, transcode, vcdimager, and cdrdao. This script converts AVI videos to VCD, SVCD, or DivX, and optionally burns them to CD. The script was designed to allow even unexperienced users to convert videos.
It is only a simple frontend to mjpeg-tools and transcode.But you will need these helpful tools:
mjpegtools (Converting)
transcode (DIVX)
videocodecs you want to use with transcode (divx5, opendivx and xvid)
vcdimager (what may this be for ?)
cdrdao (burning)
Youseful but not mandatory, versions may be higher:
divx4linux
libdvdcss2
libdvdread
libfame
win32-codecs
xvid
Enhancements:
- Quality of the generated videos was improved
- Added support for multipassencoding with divx
- PCB-Menusupport added for VCD und SVCD with vcdxgen
- Changed $ to * for the wildcard in the vcdxgen part. This should fix the error with the vcdmenuecreation
- Added option -x to transcode, because autodection of some avifiles failed
- Some minor bugfixes

MoviX2 is a small Linux distro on CD aimed at playing multimedia: when you boot your PC with the MoviX2 CD the distro should be able to start X-windows and launch gmplayer, the GUI interface to mplayer, so that you are left with a nice user-friendly interface you can control by your mouse.

At that point you can safely remove the MoviX2 CD and play all multimedia files you want: DVD [no zone constraint], VCD, DivX, avi, mpg, mp3, ogg etc.

The idea of MoviX2 came to solve two different problems arising from MoviX.
First of all with MoviX you cannot watch DVDs, mainly because you have no space to copy vob files in a 700MB MoviX CD.

Furthermore, those of you who have already a big archive of multimedia CDs would probably not happy at the idea of "MoviX-ing" them all.

MoviX2 solves both problems: it is not made to be embedded with the movie in a CD but just to be loaded in a PC to transform it in a true MultiMedia Box, so after that you can extract from your CD/DVD-ROM the MoviX2 CD and insert & play every DVD/VCD/CD you have around.

So remember: MoviX2 is not an "improved" version of MoviX nor a replacement for it! It has a totally different philosophy behind, the mplayer binary is compiled with different options and it is used for different purposes.

The name is similar because anyway they are both related to Unix and movies :-)
The exponent on the X of MoviX2 is there to indicate that there are two Xs in MoviX2: one is the X of Unix and the other is the X of XFree86 :-)

Linux Video Maker is useful for DVD/(S)VCD structure generating, ready for record on CD/DVD. Its in fact graphics interface (GUI) for transcode, mplex, DVDAuthor and few other programs...

Using of these programs for this purpose is uncomfortable and sometimes difficult especially for beginners because it involves a lot of knowledge about DVD/(S)VCD technology and video converting.

Linux Video Maker binds funcionality of 8 exterior programs and prevents from making many mistakes mainly in conversion process which can take a lot of time as AVI files uses complicated video algorithms (DIVX).

Program doesnt contain yet too many advanced options but it allow generate a standard DVD/(S)VCD structure without any problems.

Program in 2 GUI languages: english and polish !