CD/DVD Tools
Being able to play back compact discs, digital video discs, and Blu-ray Discs is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can do with them on computers with the power of software. This category includes tools to burn, rip, or copy disks, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs; create audio CDs, DVD videos, or slideshows; extract audio and video files; and edit, convert and manage your multimedia collections.
- SmartRipper is a freeware software application that can be used to create a copy of a DVD on a hard drive.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.41, released in December 2001, can be still downloaded from VideoHelp.com
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- This application (CD/DVD cataloguer) creates indexes (table of contents) of your floppy or CD/DVD discs.
- GWhere allows you to manage a catalog of your CDs and any other removable media (such as hard disks, floppy disks, Zip disks, CD-ROMs, etc...) indexed in a database.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.2.3, released in 2007, can be still downloaded from the official website.
No screenshots yet- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Thoggen is a DVD ripper for Linux within the GNOME project. It is based on GStreamer and Gtk+.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.7.1, released in June 2008, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Xfce
- Amok CD/DVD Burning is a lightweight (under 1 MB!) application for CDs and DVDs.
Discontinued
last official update: 28.05.2010
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- DVDx is an all-in-one DVD and Blu-ray copier as well as a powerful audio/video transcoder. Not just a media transcoder and DVD/Blu-ray copier, DVDx 4.
- Leawo Blu-ray Ripper can rip Blu-ray/DVD to video and audio for multiple uses.
- Magic DVD Ripper is a very easy and powerful DVD ripping software, which can convert DVD to VCD, SVCD, AVI(DivX), WMV, MP3, iPod and PSP formats or backup DVD to hard drive...
- DMGExtractor is a lightweight Java application for extracting the contents of a Mac OS X Disk Image file (extension .dmg) to raw binary format (such as an ISO file).
Discontinued
The program is no longer developed. Last version, 0.70, released in November 2008, can be still downloaded from the official website.
No screenshots yet- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- GnomeBaker is a CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop.
- DoISO - free ISO CD/DVD image maker and CD/DVD burner for Windows.
- Software to convert CDs to DDP images, convert DVDs to DDP images, master CDs, create inexpensive duplication workstations to format master for fast mass production, deliver your...
- CD Archiver allows you to organize and catalog your folders and disc collection. Features: - Flashearth links are added to images that contain gps information.
- Rebuilds images of DVDs to shrink a DVD9 to a DVD5 as well as many other options.
- is a GTK+ frontend for cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools and cdrdao.