Free your dvds software for linux

myDVDs project is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database.
Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
Enhancements:
- The install script was rewritten.
- The upgrade script now handles nearly all of the manual steps.
- The HTML code has been tweaked.
- Images are now in the themes CSS.
- The login form has been reworked. XML and PDF generation have been fixed.
- The documentation has been updated.

The Quon DVD Database is a complete solution to manage your movies. Highlights of this program include user tracking, barcode scanner support, user access, a login system, and an advanced searcher.
Quon DVD Database can check DVDs in and out of your collection, allowing you to keep track of which of your friends has them. You can send reminder email messages, or they can simply log in to see what they have checked out.
Enhancements:
- An issue with ordering on a few pages has been fixed.
- The system is forced use the OLD_PASSWORD system, so that when someone moves their database from one host (using an old version of MySQL) to a new one (using a new version of MySQL), the passwords of the existing users wont have to be recreated.

Pydvdauthor provides an easy-to-use interface for creating video DVDs, including support for chapters. Pydvdauthor project does not yet generate menus.

Its output is the XML files needed for input to the dvdauthor program.

Ogle is a real DVD player that supports DVD menus and navigation. It can access CSS-protected DVDs if you have libdvdcss installed, take screen shots, and view movies in fullscreen mode.
It handles angles correctly and automatically uses the correct aspect. You can switch subtitles and audio tracks. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
Main features:
- Supports DVD menus and navigation.
- Reads from mounted, unmounted DVDs and hard drive.
- Reads encrypted and unencrypted DVDs using libdvdread/libdvdcss.
- A new MPEG2 decoder with MMX, Altivec and SUN Solaris mediaLib acceleration.
- Normal X11 and XFree86 Xvideo display support with subpicture overlay.
- Accelerated display on Sun FFB2+ cards.
- Audio and subpicture selection.
- Handles advanced subpicture commands such as fade/scroll and wipe.
- Detects and uses correct aspect for movie and menus.
- Possible to play AC3, DTS, MPEG, LPCM via S/PDIF.
- Hardware yuv2rgb on Sun FFB2+ (Creator3D).
- Fullscreen mode.
- Screenshots with and without subpicture overlay.
- Title/chapter search.
- Audio formats supported: AC-3, MPEG, LPCM (DTS only via SP/DIF).
Version restrictions:
- Reverse play not implemented.
- No angle selection during playback (angle selection in DVD menu works).
- No closed caption support (not the same as subpicture subtitling).
- DTS audio not supported (other than via SP/DIF).
- To play another DVD you have to restart the program.
- Karaoke mode is missing.

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).

Lumiere is a GNOME frontend to libxine from the xine project. It has the looks of XMMS or Winamp and integrates seemlessly with the Gnome Desktop.
Lumiere is a media player, it just plays audio and video files. It is meant to work with Linux and alikes, not Windows.
Lumiere is a GNOME frontend to libxine from the xine project. It has the looks of XMMS or Winamp and integrates seemlessly with the Gnome Desktop. It uses most of the Gnome technologies available (Intercommunication, configuration registry, session management...).
Lumiere features a player with playlist management, visual effects, notification icon, a server mode. It can be used as a Nautilus "Viewer" and registers itself with the right-click menu of nautilus.
Lumiere depends on libxine to play medias, it will play only what is supported by your libxine (a default installation should handle most media types).
Lumiere is not aggressive with your computer, it needs little resources (if you use GNOME) and will not keep a hand on your audia or video hardware when not playing.
Main features:
- Play mp3, ogg, DivX;-), DVDs, Audio CDs...
- Integrate fully with the Gnome desktop (mime-types, dragn drop, notification area...)
- Keep it it memory, it wont keep your audio or XVideo devices busy
- Use it with Mozilla or Galeon, through mozilla-bonobo
- Hey, it follows mostly the "Human Interface Guidelines" from freedesktop.org, this means standard key shortcuts, standard menus, application registry registration, standard secondary windows... It works fine with Gnopernicus screen reader.
- It is time to throw away XMMS...

xDVDShrink facilitates creation of a fair-use copy of a DVD for archival purposes.

xDVDShrink is a BASH and PERL-Gtk based utility that makes use of readily available Linux tools to create a copy of a DVD.

Single titles or episodic DVDs are supported. Only a single audio and subtitle stream are supported for each title.

dvd2avi is a simple graphical tool to help you backup your DVDs under Linux. After a long period of coding and testing, I finally succeeded to issue well usable and handy version of dvd2avi which I hope will help you.

dvd2avi is meant to help you put together a comandline for conversion from DVD title to AVI divx file. dvd2avi uses mencoder for its fast and reliable job, and lsdvd for getting the information about the source DVD.