libdvdcss is a free software library for accessing and unscrambling encrypted DVDs. libdvdcss is used by VLC media player (not included in the Windows version) to view DVDs, and can be used by Handbrake to rip DVDs.
Open Source AnyDVD AlternativesDVD Rippers & DVD Copying Utilities like AnyDVD
The best open source alternative to AnyDVD is libdvdcss. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to AnyDVD and three of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to AnyDVD are dvd::rip and Thoggen.
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dvd::rip is a full featured DVD Ripper GUI for Linux, written in Perl. It features an easy to use, yet powerful interface for ripping DVDs to many formats, including AVI, MKV, etc. dvd::rip can also rip subtitles into VobSub format, split the video and subtitles to several...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD

Thoggen is a DVD ripper for Linux within the GNOME project. It is based on GStreamer and Gtk+. The current version can back up DVDs by encoding them using the Ogg Theora video codec.













