HandBrake is a cross-platform video transcoder that supports most common multimedia formats, DVDs or Bluray-like sources that aren't copy-protected. The application can even create chapters or add subtitles.

After more than a year, a new HandBrake version has been released: 0.9.6, and it includes many improvements, such as:

Basenji is a cross-platform tool you can use to index your CDs/DVDs and USB devices so you can later search the database without having plug the media into your computer.

Even though it's not its first aim, Handbrake is used by many as a DVD ripper and it was voted as "best Linux DVD ripper" by the WebUpd8 readers.

In our last week's poll, we asked you to vote for the best Linux DVD ripper.

It's time for another weekly poll. For this week: best Linux DVD Ripper.

The candidates are: AcidRip, HandBrake, dvd::rip, OGMRip and k9Copy. But as usual, you can enter a different result if you want to, by selecting "Other" and then entering your anwser.

multicd.sh is a shell script designed to build a multiboot CD / DVD image containing many different Linux distributions and/or utilities. You can use it for instance to burn Gparted Live, Clonezilla and Ubuntu, all on the same multiboot DVD. When booting the CD / DVD, you will be able to choose which Linux distribution you want to boot on.

'Q' DVD-Author is a GUI frontent for dvdauthor and related tools. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD under Linux.

QDVDAuthor version 2.10 was released two days and it's a bug-fix release, but the author describes it as "the best QDVDAuthor release yet".


Bugs fixed in version 2.1.0: