DVD/VCD
Submitted by and on Fri, 2006-04-14 08:41.
To distribute your video on DVD or VCD you'll need a programme to author and burn it. The following programmes will assist you here though they can be less that intuative and take a bit of effort to work well. Also included are programmes to rip DVDs to your computer.
DVD/VCD Authoring
Sizzle is a DVD/VCD authoring tool.
It has a simple interface and leverages a Free and Open Source Software
tool called DVDAuthor to carry out its functions. Sizzle will allow you
to bring in various video files and will process and re-arrange the
files in the universally standard DVD or VCD stucture and format so
that they can be played on your home DVD/VCD player.
License: Freeware
| Operating Systems |  Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English
Documentation: View help page in programme menu
DVDAuthorGUI is a DVD/VCD authoring
tool. It has a simple interface and leverages a Free and Open Source
Software tool called DVDAuthor to carry out its functions. DVDAuthorgui
will allow you to bring in various video files and will process and
re-arrange the files in the universally standard DVD or VCD stucture
and format so that they can be played on your home DVD/VCD player.
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems |  Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English
Documentation | Guide
QDVDAuthor is a DVD/VCD authoring
tool. It has a simple interface and leverages a Free and Open Source
Software tool called DVDAuthor to carry out its functions. QDVDAuthor
will allow you to bring in various video files and will process and
re-arrange the files in the universally standard DVD or VCD stucture
and format so that they can be played on your home DVD/VCD player. It
allows you to create titles, subtitles and a basic navigation menu
system for your DVD
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems |  Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| DIFFICULT | DIFFICULT | MODERATE |
Languages: English
Documentation
DVD/VCD Burning
Gnomebaker is a full featured CD/DVD
writing software. It allows you drag and drop audio files to write
Audio CDs, video clips and still images to write Video CDs. It allows
simple drag and drop of your files to burn data DVD and CD ROMs, erases
and writes DVD and CD ReWritables and also creates DVD and CD iso
images. It allows you to create titles, subtitles and a basic
navigation menu system for your DVD
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems | Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| MODERATE | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English
Documentation: None provided
DeepBurner is an advanced and
extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package. It removes the hassle of
making CDs, DVDs, and autoruns. It even makes it easy for you to create
and print your own labels and booklets. DeepBurner supports a very wide
range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD
writers. Burn any data, copy any disc, make backups, create astonishing
photo CD albums, make ISO CDs and Video DVDs with this very easy to
handle software!
License: Freeware
| Operating Systems | Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English
Documentation
DVD Ripping
HandBrake is a DVD to MPEG-4
ripper/converter. It allows you to read from DVDs, DVD/VOB files or DVD
iso images and convert them to mpeg-4 files for storage on your
computer.
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems | Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | MODERATE |
Languages: English
Documentation | Smug Documentation
DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD
discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning
software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD. If you already possess alternative burning software and prefer to stick with it, then you can still use DVD Shrink. The output from DVD Shrink can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with software of your choice.
License: Freeware
| Operating Systems | Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French.
Documentation
AcidRip uses Mplayer and Mencoder as
its background processes and is a useful, easy to use graphical user
interface through which you can convert and backup your DVDs into video
formats for easy storage on your computer.
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems | Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| Difficult | Difficult | EASY |
Languages: English
Documention: none provided
VLC is a highly portable multimedia
player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming
protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream audio on a
high-bandwidth network.
License: GNU GPL
| Operating Systems | Download |
Download |
Download |
| System Requirement | Installation level | Usage level |
| EASY | EASY | EASY |
Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian
Documentation
