dvd::rip is a full featured DVD ripping program written in Perl.
This software provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
dvd::rip uses the widely known video processing swissknife Transcode and many other Open Source tools.
Features include:
- Rip to hard disk, on the fly, or from an existing DVD image.
- Select audio track(s), viewing angle(s), multitple titles.
- Rip multiple audio tracks into one AVI/OGG/SVCD file.
- Supports nearly all of transcode’s 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.
- 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::rip’s zoom calculator let you adjust every possible parameter.
- Two resize modes: fast and high quality resizing.
- Simple but easy to use CD burning facility.
- Comprehensive cluster mode for parallel encoding.
Website: www.exit1.org/dvdrip
Support: Documentation
Developer: Joern Reder and many contributors
License: GNU General Public License

dvd::rip is written in Perl and C. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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