[bold]Quote from: DaveQB from Doom9 forums (with additons)[/bold] A place to get started (application links) So many times i see posts in Linux video forums simply asking "what app can i use ??" I too was one of these people not that long ago. Well it seems recently i have developed a decent list of apps i have come across but by no means exhaustive. So i figured why not have a thread with all that i know and added to by others and what they have seen out there. Will definately help beginners and quite possible people who have been searching high and low for that 'exact' app they are after. So without further adieu.... [bold]GUI[/bold] [bold]Acidrip[/bold] ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder AcidRip is a Gtk:erl application for ripping and encoding DVD's. 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: [bold]Avidemux[/bold] A great starting point for someone coming from Windows. A VirtualDub clone it can also encode to mpeg1/2. A little slower in seeking lossless video, but maybe that was a hard drive issue of mine. [bold]DVD Slide Show[/bold] tools to create dvd slideshow with menus dvd-slideshow This is the main script. It generates a DVD-compatible MPEG2 video file with audio from a text file input listing of pictures and effects. dvd-menu Creates a simple DVD menu with buttons that link to MPEG2 files generated with dvd-slideshow or ones that you have created yourself. galery2slideshow Instead of a GUI to create slideshows, I already have almost everything set up from my web page that uses the Gallery program. I figured it wouldn't be that hard to just get a listing of all the images in a given album (sub-albums not supported!) and to generate an appropriate input file to dvd-slideshow. jigl2slideshow Does the same thing as gallery2slideshow, but works on a jigl gallery [bold]Kino[/bold] (Site also homes dvgrab: DV capturing app) Kino is mostly thought of as a DV captuing and editing app but it can do more. I havent devled deep into this app as i have issues with my firewire and camcorder under Linux. I probably should explore its effects/editing ability. [bold]Cinelerra[/bold] This looks like it has great potential but i have yet to really get into this one either. If anyone has a guide/tutorial for this please post. [bold]Kmenc15[/bold] Essentially a script generator for MEncoder. Has a wide variety of options and generates a script for copying so you can batch up encodes. Also allows visual editing of start (-ss) and end positions (-endpos) Sadly files i have tried to open with it have errored for some reason, although they play in mplayer. Its early days and has alot of potential i think. [bold]gmencoder[/bold] This the main GUI for MEncoder, but i find a little limiting to what MEncoder can really do. Its geared mainly for DVD backup. [bold]Kdenlive[/bold] A nice little Non-linear editor i havent got into yet. [bold]Lives[/bold] Another Non-linear editor i havent really got into besides trying to load a lavc video file and having it crash KDE on me :\ Only one i have found to do a fade out/in effect. [bold]LVE[/bold] Yet another non-linear editor that ....... i haven't looked into much. [bold]Konverter[/bold] Similiar to Kmenc15 but it hasn't got the visual editor. Seems to be less buggy though. [bold]KLVEmkdvd[/bold] A very tidy looking DVD compiler. Doesn't seem to have any menu options. [bold]mpgtx[/bold] No idea. Found this on my travels last week and then noticed it was installed b another board members app : mediacity. [bold]Drip[/bold] A DVD ripper. Never used it. [bold]mediacity[/bold] Very new product still being tested. Written in Java. Developed by Graham Trott. [bold]QDVDauthor[/bold] A GUI frontend for DVDauthor. [bold]Varsha[/bold] Another DVD authoring program written in Java this time. [bold]DVD::rip[/bold] A nice all in one DVD ripper. Does everything from the ripping to the burning. Writtne in Perl. Uses Transcode as a backend. [bold]CLI[/bold] [bold]MEncoder[/bold] The best encoder i have found, often the backend for many of the GUI's listed. [bold]lxdvdrip[/bold] A simplified all-in-one DVD ripper. [bold]ffmpeg[/bold] We owe alot to this project like lavcodec. [bold]transcode[/bold] A bit slow but does thing MEncoder can't. [bold]encode2mpeg[/bold] Uses MPlayer and MEncoder as a backend as well as mjpegtools to convert anything into a DVD/SVCD or VCD. [bold]Mjpegtools[/bold] Good for operations on mpeg files like multiplexing etc. Used as a backend for other tools like tovid. [bold]tovid[/bold] Same as encode2mpeg except a little more in its infancy. Has better installer and documentation though. [bold]DVDauthor[/bold] A DVDauthoring suite. For making menu's and compiling DVD compliant files. [bold]Audio[/bold] [bold]Audacity[/bold] Very handy visual audio editor in the same fashion as GoldWave for Windows. A fast, cross-platform audio editor Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited undo/redo. Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and AU. [bold]Glame[/bold] versatile audio processor GLAME provides a powerful and extensible framework for processing audio files similar to what GIMP offers in the graphics area. GLAME so far features a graphical frontend to set up filter networks and perform basic audio editing tasks. A flexible Scheme-based command line editor offers low-level access for scripting purposes. [bold]sox[/bold] A universal sound sample translator SOX (SOund eXchange) is a generic utility for translating sound files from one format to another, possibly performing a sound effect at the same time. Sox is able to handle formats like .ogg (vorbis), mp3, wav, aiff, voc, snd, au, gsm and several more. misc. [bold]Xvicap[/bold] Handy video screen capturing with a nice tutorial (with of course video files showing how to use it ) [bold]MKVmerge GUI[/bold] Part of the MKVtoolnix, a good way to merge your mpeg4 videos with there Ogg Vorbis audio. __________________ Can't we all just get along?? 1700+ @ 2111mhz, mem @ 190mhz CL2.5 || nForce2 || 2x40gig 32/32 RAID 0 || CX23881 Capture Card OCAU Proud to be an Aussie!
My additions in my quest. [bold]GUI:[/bold] [bold]K9Copy:[/bold] http://k9copy.free.fr/ I am currently using this application, so far I like how it functions and you are able to select and de-select chapters via gui. Description K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. 1. Copy without menus : In this case, dvdauthor is used to create a new DVD structure. It is possible to choose the order in which the video sequences are played. 2. Copy with menus : As dvdauthor does not make it possible to integrate the original menus, K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream. The creation of personalized menus has not been renewed in version 1.0.0. Features * The video stream is compressed to make the DVD fit on 4.7 Gb recordable DVD * DVD Burning * Creation of ISO images * Possibility of selecting the audio tracks and subtitles to be copied * Title preview (video only) * Possibility of preserving the original menus [bold]Kdvdbackup:[/bold] http://agmanager.sourceforge.net/kdvdbackup.html or http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12698 I have not used this application, it is next on my list to test, should I find myself not liking K9Copy. The kdvdbackup is a utility for backing up DVD movies to hard disk. It uses the libdvdread and libdvdnav library, and if the libdvdcss library is installed, encrypted DVDs can be backuped. # Based on dvdbackup # Preview and DVD analyze code from k9copy project Features # Backup an entire DVD movie into the hard disk. # Backup only selected titles and/or selected chapters from a title. # Making ISO image from the extracted DVD Movie # Preview feature. # Easy to use user interface, following the KDE standards. [bold]thoggen:[/bold] http://thoggen.net/ I have not used this yet, I am watching it's development to see how it comes along (if you have used this please share your experience with all to see). Desc: Thoggen is designed to be easy and straight-forward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults that work okay for most people most of the time. Features: *Easy to use, with a nice graphical user interface (GUI) *Supports title preview, picture cropping, and picture resizing. *Language Selection for audio track (no subtitle support yet though) *Encodes into Ogg/Theora video *Can encode from local directory with video DVD files *Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, which makes it fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future. [bold]shrinkto5[/bold] I have not used this obvious reasons, but I am keeping my ey on it. (coming soon for linux) http://www.shrinkto5.com/ [bold]gnomebaker:[/bold] http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/v2/ About Gnomebaker is a GTK2/GNOME cd burning application. I’ve been writing it in my spare time so progress is fairly slow. It’s more of a personal project as I wanted to have a go at developing on Linux and I figured that as I had got this far I may as well let it loose on the world. Maybe someone will like it and use it. If you like Gnomebaker, please rate it here. The project package is located here. Features As of 0.5 Gnomebaker can: * Create Audio CDs from existing WAVs, MP3, FLAC and Oggs * Import M3U and PLS audio playlists * Create Data CDs * Blank ReWritable disks * Copy Data CDs * Copy Audio CDs * Burn existing CD ISO images * Can burn via SCSI and ATAPI on linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6. Basically if cdrecord works then Gnomebaker will work * Drag and drop to create Data CDs (including DnD to and from nautilus) * Integrate with GConf for storage of application settings * Burn DVDs * Supports multisession burning * Blank/Format DVDs * Burn Cue/Bin files * Burn Data CDs on the fly In the future it will also do the following and hopefully much more: * Create Video CDs from existing video and stills * Create mixed mode CDs [bold]K3B:[/bold] http://www.k3b.org/ ==> I use this and I like the interface and have been very happy with the outputs so far. <== The basic K3b idea K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. It consists of basicly three parts: 1. The projects: Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn. 2. The Tools: The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting. 3. Context sensitive media actions: When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it's contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs. K3b features The features are presented in no particular order and the list might be incomplete... * Creating data cds: o Add files and folders to your data cd project via drag'n'drop. o Remove files from your project, move files within your project. o Create empty direcories within your project. o Write data cds on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to cd later. o Rockridge and Joliet support. o Rename files in your project. o Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3". o For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options. o Verifying the burned data. o Support for multible El-Torito boot images. o Multisession support * Creating audio cds: o Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included. o CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files. o Write audio cds on-the-fly without decoding audio files to wav before. o Normalize volume levels before writing. o Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end. * Creating Video CDs: o VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD o CD-i support (Version 4) * Creating mixed-mode CDs: o CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support. o All data and audio project features. * Creating eMovix CDs * CD Copy o Copy single and multi session data CDs o Copy Audio CDs o Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra) o Copy CD-Text o Add CD-Text from cddb o CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies * DVD burning: o Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) o Creating data DVD projects o Creating eMovix DVDs o Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs * CD Ripping: o CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory. o Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number. o CD-TEXT reading. May be used instead of CDDB info. o K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-TEXT when adding the ripped files to an audio project. o Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included. * DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding * Save/load projects. * Blanking of CDR-Ws. * Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information. * Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data. * Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN * DVD copy (no video transcoding yet) * Enhanced CD device handling: o Detection of max. writing and reading speed. o Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support. o Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking * KParts-Plugin ready. [bold]nero linux:[/bold] http://www.nero.com/en/NeroLINUX.html NeroLINUX is a comprehensive, yet flexible application, which supports all important functions of Nero Burning Rom now as well on Linux Systems. Have a close look at our complete demoversion to get an overview of NeroLINUX. Or get your Serial Number for a full Version of NeroLINUX today. The NeroLINUX manual is of course a free download.
[bold]xdvdshrink:[/bold] http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/ XDVDShrink is a project in BASH and Perl-Gtk2 that allows you to create fair-use archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs. # Command-line and graphical interface # Scriptable # Copy single movies # Copy multiple episodes # Selectable audio stream (AC3 only) # Option for one subtitle stream per DVD title
So far all that have been listed are linux native and do not require anything like WINE, Crossover, or VMWare to function. Obviously there are a few on here that have windows versions, however they have an alternative linux version as well. I hope that you find this list help, I will try to update it as I come across other programs. Currently I am on the quest to discover a lib or proggy that can handle ARccOS, ripguard, sony's protection. If some one that reads this knows of such proggy please share, if anyone knows of additional linux native programs please list them up and share with others. [bold]if this is seen as very helpful maybe this could be turned into a sticky for all.[/bold]
I am still very much a linux noob, but i think that DVD::RIP is the one for bypassing the protections. http://www.linuxloader.com (site run by PRD60) might be a good starting point to see what other people are using for the dvd backups. his site is just for the mandriva version of linux, but it has lots of questions on different softwares in the forums, that are usable on all linux distros.
Some popular applications like DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink work with WINE (http://www.winehq.com). Here is a small guide to both programs and getting them to work under Ubuntu, although I bet its easy to do the same under different distrobutions. (http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/dvdshrink/)
