21 of the Best Free Linux DVD Tools
The venerable DVD is a removable media format that was
conceived over
15 years ago. However, it still remains today the ideal
format for many uses, although blu-ray is starting to make
significant inroads in the field of multimedia playback.
DVDs remain the most popular removable format for Linux
distributions,
primarily because CDs do not have the capacity to carry a
large number of applications, and blu-ray discs and players remain
expensive.
This article focuses on selecting the best free software which
relies on the DVD format. We select the best of breed Linux
software to play DVD multimedia, to create DVD videos, software to
write to them, as well as applications that copy video content from DVD
media to a hard disk. Furthermore, we also examine software
which helps users to catalogue their DVD collection, as well as
software which offer a textual version of dialog.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is
available, we have compiled a list of 21 high quality Linux DVD tools.
Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wants to
revel in multimedia.
Now, let's explore the 21 DVD tools at hand. For each title we
have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the
software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its
features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
| Players |
| xine |
Powerful
multimedia program, specializing in video playback |
| MPlayer |
Very
popular movie player |
| Totem |
Official
movie player of the GNOME
desktop environment |
| VLC |
Multimedia
player and streamer |
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| Burning |
| Brasero |
Easy to use CD/DVD burning application |
| GnomeBaker |
CD/DVD
creation in the GNOME
desktop |
| K3b |
Sophisticated KDE
CD/DVD burning application |
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| Ripping / Transcoding |
| AcidRip |
Ripping and encoding DVD tool using MPlayer
and Mencoder |
| dvd::rip |
Perl
front end for transcode |
| HandBrake |
Multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter |
| Thoggen |
DVD
backup utility ('DVD ripper'), based on GStreamer and Gtk+ |
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| Authoring |
| DeVeDe |
Create video DVDs |
| K9Copy |
DVD
backup and authoring |
| KMediaFactory |
Template based DVD authoring tool for KDE |
| Q
DVD-Author |
GUI
frontend for dvdauthor and
related tools |
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| Cataloging |
| GCstar |
Manages a movie collection |
| Griffith |
Film
collection manager |
| Tellico
|
Collection manager for KDE |
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| Subtitles |
| Gaupol |
Subtitle editor for text-based subtitle files |
| GNOME
Subtitles |
Subtitles
editor for the GNOME
Desktop environment |
Subtitle
Editor
|
Graphical subtitle editor with sound waves
representation |
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Last Updated Saturday, April 13 2013 @ 04:44 AM EDT
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