ConvertXtoDVD converts and burns your internet movie files to a compatible DVD.DivxToDVD is a 1 click solution to convert and burn your movie files to a compatible DVD playable on any home DVD player.

ConvertXtoDVD supports most popular format such Divx, Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, AVI, WMV, DV and stream formats. It converts your files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media, with custom a DVD menu!

The aspect ratio can be automatically selected or forced to a specific format. The program works for NTSC and PAL video formats and creates chapters automatically. Multiple audio tracks are supported. The version 2 uses a completely rewritten interface with subtitles support and a lot of new settings.

Author: VSO Software
License: Shareware

DVD Rebuilder (DVD-RB) is currently the highest quality method to backup a DVD, while retaining menus and extras. The software acts as a front-end for various tools, and provides a simple “one-click” interface for DVD to DVD-R compression.

Instead of performing a quick transcoding, which results in a lesser quality copy, DVD-RB re-encoder the video using an external video encoder. This can be the commercial Cinemacraft Encoder, or one of the high quality freeware alternatives such as HC Encoder or QuEnc.

Author: jdobbs softworks
License: Freeware, donations (Pro version)

DVD Shrink is software to compress movie DVD discs to fit into the 4.7GB capacity of a DVD-R disc. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc. Shrink’s user interface offer a lot of possibilities for re-authoring the disc, or finetuning the compression settings.

Development of DVD Shrink has ended, due to legal issues. We are hosting the final released version v3.2.0.15. Note that some malicious software vendors have created others software misleadingly titled as ‘DVD Shrink’, but this is the one and only real thing.

Author: Anonymous
License: Freeware

FFDSHOW is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters. FFDSHOW supports virtually every audio and video format used in movies or other video content on the internet, and decodes them with excellent quality and high performance. Includes a lot of options for tweaking, but works very well out-of-the-box, being transparent for the end-user.

Author: Milan Cutka
License: Open source

FixVTS is a very tiny tool that allows you to adjust your DVD files into better DVD compliance, so they can be opened in DVDShrink or vobblanker. This is especially useful if your DVD had some kind of copy protection that prevents DVDShrink from opening it. FixVTS can fix that for you. Another use case might be DVDs authored with set-top DVD recorders, which sometimes break DVD compliancy in disc creation.

Author: Jean Laroche, abandonware
License: Open source

GOTSent is an easy and fast h264 .MKV to PS3 and XBOX 360 compatible MP4 and PS3 compatible M2TS/AC3 conversion. Recoding to Xvid, mpeg2 and compatible h264 (with hardcoded subtitles) is also supported. Works reliably with almost all high definition 720p files.

Author: Sentry23
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Changes from version v0.20:

• added SSSE3 support
• added some new functions: *LUMGAIN, *SILENT and *SCDFILE
• higher encoding speed for best profile
• as usual some bug fixes

Author: hank315
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Changes from version v0.21:

• multiprocessor support
• improved interlaced encoding
• more CLI input
• and as usual some bug fixes

Author: hank315
License: Freeware, donations accepted

HC Encoder is a freeware high quality MPEG-1/2 encoder.

Changes from version v0.22

• Added adaptive quantization
• Added panscan

Author: hank315
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Media Player Classic (usually abbreviated as MPC)  is a light wight, but fully featured audio and video player. It’s user interface is very similar to the old Windows Media Player, thus the name Classic. It has built in codecs and support for VideoCD, Super VideoCD and DVD playback. It utilizes the DirectShow architecture, so it can automatically use any DirectShow decoders that are installed in the system (see: FFDSHOW).

MPC is a highly recommended replacement for Windows Media Player, and combined with FFDSHOW it is suited for all typical audio/video playback uses.

Author: Gabest
License: Open source

MenuShrink is a convient tool for improving DVD compression, without sacrificing the quality of the video. MenuShrink accomplishes this by replacing animated DVD menus with still images, thus freeing a lot of data capacity for the video. In some movies the savings are hundreds of megabytes and even movies with more that 1 GB of menu content exist! In such cases the quality improvement of the video can be substantial.

Even though MenuShrink is fully legal software and does not infringe any copyrights, by decrypting procteions or otherwise, Jean got into legal issues for MenuShrink and was forced to quit developing the software. We are currently hosting the last released version v2.41 of MenuShrink.

Author: Jean Laroche,  abandonware
License: Freeware

mkv2vob is a software for converting .MKV or .TS video files into Sony PlayStation 3 compatible format. Files with compatible content streams are remuxed without transcoding, so the process is very quick and there is no quality loss. mkv2vob can detect incompatible audio and video streams and transcode them automatically into a compatible format. It can also encode subtitles into the video stream.

Author:3r1c
License: Freeware, donations accepted

Nero 8, the newest version of the world’s best-selling multimedia suite, brings the digital world to your PC. Now it’s easy to organize and manage all your multimedia files, as well as create and edit new digital content. Nero’s sleek design and user-friendly tools make completing projects fun and enjoyable.

• Direct access to all features from the project launcher
• High Definition format support
• Xbox 360™ and PlayStation® 3 streaming features
• Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD burning support
• SecurDisc data protection support
• Copy a disc with just one click
• Graphics optimized for Windows Vista™
• Continual free updates

Author: Nero
License: Shareware

Changes from version v0.71:

• fixed separate not working with -close
• changed will not encode pulldown when interlaced disabled but pulldown enabled
• small tweak to 2 pass ratecontrol

Author: Mark Lenard
License: Open Source

SmartLabs tsMuxeR is a transport stream muxer. It can demux and remux content streams from one container format to another.

Supported output formats:

• TS
• M2TS
• Blu-ray

Supported video codecs:

• H.264
• VC-1
• MPEG2

Supported audio codecs:

• AAC
• AC3 / E-AC3(DD+)
• Dolby True HD (for streams with AC3 core only)
• DTS/ DTS-HD
• LPCM

Supported subtitles:

• M2TS Presentation graphic stream

Supported containers and formats:

• elementary stream
• Transport stream TS and M2TS
• Program stream EVO/VOB/MPG
• Matroska MKV/MKA

Note: tsMuxeR is under rapid developement and format support and features are like to improve faster than this page is updated.

Author: smartLabs
License: Freeware

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.It started as a student project at the French École Centrale, Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. (more).

VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different modules to decide how to control VLC and how to display the video output.

A unique feature of VLC is that it has all the major codecs built in, so you do not need to install additional codecs to your operating system (Windows, Linux..) in order to get playback support.

Author: VideoLAN
License: Open source