Download VidCoder 1.0; Now Out Of Beta And More Stable

VidCoder is a famous open source DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application that uses HandBrake  encoding engine and is considered to have a much easier-to-use user interface than HandBrake itself. We reviewed the initial version when it was released, and later when it added Blu-ray support. Today, VidCoder ended its beta stage and a stable package was launched (version 1.0). In this post we will take a look at some of its new features which have made it even better than before. Read More

Burn CD, DVD and Blu-ray In Ubuntu Easily With Silicon Empire

Silicon Empire is a complete suite to burn, copy, backup and manage your optical discs. It can burn CD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs, and can mount disc images from ISO, NRG, BIN, MDF and IMG formats. The main features include, burning, copying, and erasing discs, along with a built-in image viewer and music player. You will find options to copy, burn , erase, and mount discs and disc images on the main interface. All options are separated in convenient tabs for easy management and identification of each available feature. Read More

Burn Data On All Types Of Optical Media With Tiny Burner

Tiny Burner is a portable data burning software which supports a large array of disc formats. What makes Tiny Burner useful is that it supports a large array of hardware burners and optical discs including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-R/+R DL, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, BD-R/RE DL, HD-DVD-R/RW and even DVD-RAM. With Tiny Burner, you can burn Data on a CD, DVD and even Blu-ray disc, without installing different standalone burners. This makes Tiny Burner a viable alternative to many paid software burners such as Nero, with added advantage of portability. Tiny Burner indeed lives up to its name, as it is not a resource hogging software. During testing we experienced little CPU and memory usage. Read More

EasyBD Lite Is A Fast Blu-Ray Authoring Tool

EasyBD Lite is a recently released powerful Blu-ray disc authoring tool that lets users compile all types of widely supported video, audio, and subtitle file formats on Blu-ray discs without having to play with lengthy configurations. It requires nothing more than adding video and audio tracks followed by specifying time intervals for creating disc chapters to start the blu-ray disc compilation. The application is developed for both home and professional users alike. Once you get the hang of BD specification, creating Blu-ray discs through EasyBD would become easier. Since the developer focused on creating a simple BD disc creation utility, its simplified interface would quickly get you started with the process without following any extra BD disc authoring methods. Read More

Burn BluRay, DVD, CD Disks With Hamster Free Burning Studio, Better Than NeroBurn Lite

If you’ve been hanging on to Nero Free Lite tool (a stripped-down version of Nero Suite) to write/burn CDs/DVDs, you should consider giving Hamster Free Burning Studio a try. It is a full-featured free application that hosts a great number of disk authoring tools with an ability to write/burn Blu-Ray discs. It also allows users to replicate the disc content while a long list of discs types are supported, including CD-R,CD-RW, DVD RW, and so on. Out of many useful features it bring, what intruded our attention is that it can automatically identify the type of disc inserted into tray, check its capacity and evaluate the most suitable burning speed to prevent any erratic disc writing/burning experience. Read More

Easy Way To Convert DVD And Blu-ray To MKV Format

Previously, we covered a guide on BluRip, an open source Blu-ray to .mkv converter. Thanks to our reader, ericcov, who pointed this out, we today have a much easier and efficient solution for converting not only Blu-rays but also DVDs to .mkv files. Presenting to you MakeMKV, which offers not only DVD/Blu-ray disc conversion to .mkv, but also can convert any such files present on your hard drive. Read More

BluRip: Bluray To MKV Converter

MKV format or Matroska is a free open standard container format which can hold unlimited number of video, audio, and subtitle tracks. Ripping Bluray discs has always been a difficult process, most community forums have command line tools and long steps which make it complicated for novice users to convert Bluray to other formats. Read More