Useful Links

IRC Channels

EfNet: #doom9 - what do you think?

Newsgroups

Doom9's forum - Why should you go someplace else?
DVDDigest Forum - The official DVD Digest and DivX Digest forum
Hydrogenaudio - Probably THE newsgroup for advanced, high quality audio encoding

DVD Ripping news

DivX Digest - One of the most comprehensive DivX pages on the web
DivX.com - DivX News and Downloads
mpegx.com - Daily news of MP3, DVD, CD-R/RW Softwares
www.bestdownload.com - The place to get all the best programs, games, mp3 and emulator, UPDATED DAILY
cdfreaks.com - Daily updated CD/DVD recording news

Ripping Tools homepages

Audio related

AudioCoding.com - home of AAC encoding utilities
Audiotoolsfactory - home of various audio editing and conversion tools
BeSweet homepage
Dark Avenger's place - home of HeadAC3he and DSEnc
Lame binary site - always has the latest build compiled for Windows
MP3Trim homepage
Morgan Multimedia - home of the Morgan Stream Switcher
Normalize
OGG Homepage
Rarewares - excellent collection of audio encoding utilities
Toolame GUI homepage

AVI Editing

abcAVI Tag editor - change what you've always wanted to change in an AVI
AsfTools - tools to manipulate ASF and WMV files
AVI-Mux GUI homepage
AVIUtl Homepage
Gspot homepage
OggMux homepage
Project DivX - MM4 tool
VirtualDub - the most powerful app for linear video editing
VirtualDubMod - like VirtualDub but even more powerful

Calculators

ABRCalc homepage

Codecs

3ivx Homepage
DivX Codec Homepage
DivX Antifreeze homepage
ffdshow playback filter - universal playback filter for all DivX/XviD types
Ogg Vorbis homepage
OpenDivX homepage
VP3 homepage
XviD Homepage
XviD binaries - Nic - development builds
XviD binaries 2 - Koepi - development builds

Descrambling / Ripping tools

CladDVD
www.mtoo.com - A professional provider for DVD Ripper and Video/Audio converter software.

Decoders

DVD2AVI
FlaskMpeg - the easiest program to use
Mpeg Mediator
Xmpeg homepage

DivX / MPEG-4 Encoders

FairUse
FUBatch homepage
Gordian Knot
MP4UI - GUI for the MPEG4IP tools
Mpeg2Avi 2 - Iker's builds
MPEG4IP - home of open source MPEG4 utilities
mov2avi homepage
Vidomi homepage

Filters

AC3Filter home page
ffdshow homepage
GreedyHMA homepage
MoonlightSoftware
ReClock Filter

Launchers

BSPLauncher homepage
MicroDVD Autorun homepage

Media Players

BSPlayer
GdivX
RadLight
ZoomPlayer

MPEG1/2 Encoders

CCE
DVD2SVCD
SVCD Tools - home of the QT reader for TMPG and mov2avi
TMPGEnc

RegionFree Tools

Drive Info homepage
DVD Genie homepage

Subtitles

opensubtitles.org - a multi language subtitle database
Radioactive pages - home of SubCreator
S3Converter homepage
SubSynch - homepage
VirtualDub subtitler plugin homepage
VobSub Plugin - add subtitles to your avis directly from DVD

Support Utils

AviSynth Homepage
CDRDAO Homepage - open source CD burning util
Homepage of the modified AviSynth versions
Mode2 CD Maker GUI homepage
mpeg2dec homepage
NBS Catalogue - keep track of your movie collection
ReStream & FitCD homepage

SVCD Tools

pulldown.exe homepage
TTools Site - home of TSCV
VCDEasy homepage
VCDGear homepage
VCDImager
VideoServer homepage

VOB Tools

DoItFast4U homepage
DVTool Homepage - Swiss army knife for digital video
IfoEdit homepage
ImgTool homepage
VobSplit Homepage
Vstrip Homepage - need I say more?

Other DVD ripping related sites

Apachez's site - contains a good collection of DVD related software
DivX Digest - depending on whom you ask the best/2nd best DivX site on the web (you can guess which the other is)
DVDRHelp.com - probably the most comprehensive VCD site out there.
Kalel's Rip Guides
SVCD Overview
DVD Rip e DivX - Italian DivX ripping site

Inethaber : Turkish dvd-divx news and download site

Thinking about getting a new DVD Drive? Check here first to see if you can get regionfree firmware.

General DVD news

The Digital Bits
The DVD File
Area DVD - German DVD news
DVD Inside - another German DVD news site
DVDFR.com - French DVD news
The R2 Project - UK DVD news

DVD Software Players

PowerDVD - has pretty much all the features you can ask for
WinDVD - same as with PowerDVD. Use whichever you like best.

DVD Hardware

Philips DVD Recorder - The Philips DVD Recorder lets you record TV shows or transfer video to DVD using DVD+RW - the new standard for DVD Recorders
DVD Writers - A site reporting the latest news on DVD recorders/writers

Places to get DVD blanks

Meritline
Supermediastore

This document was last updated on April 17, 2008