Some additional packages. Apologies for any duplications (I tried to remove the duplicates in my original list, where I saw the packages already mentioned previously in this thread). I also may have some tools in the wrong category.
RIPPING TOOLS:
chaplin [chaplin parses a DVD disc or image and extracts the exact duration for each chapter of a given title. Then the total list of chapters is split into a user-selectable number of subsets. Each subset should have approximately the same duration. This is a very useful approach for multi-cd rips (backups). You no longer simply split the movie in the middle of the frame count but you choose two sets of chapters for both parts which both have (almost) the same length. Then the disc-break is not at a rather random point (concering the story telling of the movie) but at the end of a dvd-chapter. The chapter timings and the split sets are also very useful for chapter navigation (even on a single disc). The normal output mode of chaplin thus prints the chapter's relative beginning time and the duration in a wide number of formats, ranging from seconds, frame counts to timestamps.
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/chaplin.html
cpvdvd [a tool to transfer a DVD title to your harddisk on Linux. This tool copies all required files for a movie title from a DVD on your harddisk for further processing with libdvdreads image mode (e.g. transcode). It automatically selects the title with longest duration (but you can also pick a specific one). The tool determines the correct title set (VTS-VOB files) for the selected title, clones the navigation information (IFO files) and extracts (decodes) the data into new video object streams.]
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/cpdvd.html
cpvts [can raw copy title sets from a DVD to your harddisc. This tool can copy a single or all title sets from a DVD to a directory].
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/cpvts.html
DVDRipOMatic [translate movie from DVD to XviD format]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVDRipOMatic
dvdbackup [rips DVD to harddisk]
http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/download.shtml
http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/
gbDVDenc [rip and encode DVD into mpeg files]
http://sakya.altervista.org/gbdvdenc/index.html
k9copy [a small utility which allows the copy of DVD9 to a DVD5 on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. 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]
http://k9copy.free.fr/
kdvdbackup [backing up movie DVD's to hard disk. It uses the libdvdread and libdvdnav library]
http://agmanager.sourceforge.net/
ldvd [DVD backup tool with GUI]
[I myself never succeeded in getting this working]
http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/
streamdvd [fastbackup to DVD on fly – can handle DVD9 to DVD5]
http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html
subtitleripper [tools to extract DVD-subtitles]
http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/ - home page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitleripper - download
VanRed (eVaporate and Reauthor DVDs) is an application which makes it possible to copy the main movie from a DVD to your hard disc and which allows you to remove certain audio and subtitle streams and evaporates (requant) if necessary the video stream.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/charemma
vobcopy [copies vob files to hard disk]
http://vobcopy.org/projects/c/c.shtml
LINUX DVD SHRINKING TOOLS:
dvdshrink [xdvdshrink: BASH and Perl-Gtk2 to create archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs]
[It backs up only one user selectable video track, audio stream, and subtitle]
http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/ and
http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=630 and
http://sourceforge.net/project/show...group_id=133818
ldvd [DVD backup tool with GUI]
[Again, I myself never succeeded in getting this working]
http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/
LINUX DVD AUTHORING PROGRAMS:
DeVeDe [the DeVeDe project creates video DVDs, suitables for home players].
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
DV Slideshow [creates slideshows from photos, adds music – stores in Sony DV format]
[Not yet released]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVSlideshow
DVDAuthorWizard [create video DVD with multiple titles & menu]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVDAuthor
DVD Home Video Project [a tool that provides a simple, quick way to transform video on a DV camcorder into a DVD].
http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~ssantner/index.html
dvdstyler [frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu]
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs-linux.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler/
dvdwizard [wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu's. Needs dvdauthor, [No home URL but there is a download for the script]:
http://www.wershofen.de/downloads/dvdwizard.tar.gz
kmediafactory [authoring done by dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick]
http://susku.pyhaselka.fi/damu/software/kmediafactory/
KmPg2 [an MPEG2 encoding wizard that allows the user to create DVD compatible MPEG2 streams].
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multi...der-5324.shtml
ManDVD [This is a program to create DVD Vidéo.]
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38347
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multi...VD-12812.shtml
ManDVD forum:
http://csgib36.ifrance.com/phpBB2/index.php
pgcedit [A DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure].
http://home.tiscali.be/debie.roland/pgcedit/
tovid [A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring]
http://tovid.berlios.de/en/index.html
videotrans [a set of scripts that allow its user to reformat existing movies into the VOB format that is used on DVDs].
http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/
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Edit1 (28-Aug-2005) added pgcedit
Edit2 (6-Oct-2005) fixed alphabetical order
Edit3 (12-Nov-2005) added gbDVDenc and k9copy & added colour to titles
Edit4 (13-Nov-2005) added VanRed
Edit5 (25-May-2006) added tovid, videotrans, DeVeDe, KmPg2, DVD Home Video Project
Edit6 (28-May-2006) added chaplin, cpdvd, cpvts
Edit7 (17-Jun-2006) added ManDVD
Edit8 (29-Jul-2006) added ManDVD forum URL