DVD Player, DVD Copy, Video Converter

Nowadays, more and more movie-copy software come up with the popularity of movies. As we know, most of the movie discs are protected by CSS which makes a lot of trouble on copy movie discs. What is CSS?

Content Scramble System (CSS) is digital right management scheme used on almost all commercially produced DVD-Video discs. It utilizes a proprietary 40-bit stream cipher algorithm.

The purpose of CSS is twofold. First and foremost, it prevents byte-for-byte copies of an MPEG stream from being playable since such copies will not include the key that are hidden on the lead-in acrea of the restricted DVD disc. Second, it provides a reason for manufacturers to make compliant devices, since SCC scrambled disks will not play on noncompliant devices. Anyone wishing to build compliant devices must obtain a license, which contains requirement that the rest of the DRM system be implemented.

Any Video Converter is an all-in-one video converting freeware with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and excellent video quality. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, RMVB, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, and AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player, or Smartphones.

Version 2.74: Updates the Spanish and Czech language files. Updates the output file for Archos players. Updates the YouTube downloader engine to resolve the program error when the age authorization is required.

E.M. Total Video Converter is a piece of extremely powerful and full-featured converter software that supports almost all video and audio  formats. The software is designed to convert video for your mobile video player as 3gp, mp4, PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone etc and also VCD or DVD player, XBOX360.

What is TheaterTek DVD?
TheaterTek DVD is a Windows™ software DVD player designed for the Home Theater enthusiast. As Home Theatre PC’s, or HTPC’s as they are now called have become more popular, the need for a DVD player designed for home movie watching led to the creation of TheaterTek DVD.

MPlayer is movie player ( DVD Player ) that can play most MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV and QT/MOV files supported by many native, XAnim and Win32 DLL codecs. In addition to this you can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx and even DivX movies. In this respect it supports more formats than any of the other players reviewed here.

In addition to all of these video formats, MPlayer also supports a wide range of output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev and AAlib, and you can use SDL and some low-level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and RADEON) as well. Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in full screen. Lastly, MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+. Blimey that’s a list and a half.

So this looks like a one-stop shop for movie playback, but how does it perform? Very well. There are occasionally synchronization problems with DVD playback but nothing too major. The only thing to remember is that MPlayer does need to be run on a fairly powerful PC (greater than 500MHz) to work properly. If you are running on low power, MPlayer definitely is not for you. On lower spec machines the audio synchronization can get very messy, and the video becomes jerky, making the DVD, and other movie types, unwatchable. If you are using a lower spec machine, VideoLAN Client would appear to be the best option.

Encrypted DVDs are supported using the libcss library and, optionally, libdvdread for chapter support. As with the other players, encrypted support is not provided directly by MPlayer; you will need to download the libraries yourself. Unlike Xine, MPlayer does not support plugins, so you need to ensure that the libraries are installed before compiling.

MPlayer does not compile with a GUI by default, which is a little bizarre. To be fair, this is not a negative point as this is not really required if you just intend to use MPlayer to play back DVDs, as it does not support DVD menus. So having a GUI is not really necessary for DVD playback. However, if you intend to use MPlayer to play back other file types, you will need the GUI. To have GUI support you need to specify this if you compile from source by adding –enable-gui to the configure script.

To access the GUI you then either start MPlayer with a -gui switch (MPlayer does not use the standard –, which is usual for switches of more than one letter) or link MPlayer to gMPlayer, and then call gMPlayer instead. Another hurdle to get over with a GUI is that MPlayer is skinnable, but the standard source code has no skin, so the GUI still will not work. You need to download a skin from the MPlayer web site and install it, which is an irritating step. However, once all these additional steps are completed you are then presented with a usable interface to MPlayer. The interface, using the default skin, presents a simple and clean looking interface, that does not take up too much screen space. For those of you that find the Xine interface a little too bulky, MPlayer may suit you.

MPlayer’s main drawback, or at least irritation, is that you cannot access a DVD from the GUI; instead you have to start MPlayer with the -dvd flag in order for it to play your DVD. To view another DVD currently means that you have to restart MPlayer. Lastly, there is no support for DVD menus available at present, so you cannot access the additional features of your DVD with MPlayer.

As a one-stop shop for movie playback, MPlayer scores very highly. It is fast (assuming you have a fairly new PC), and DVD playback is very good with no audio synchronization problems. With the support for multiple file format, you may find that MPlayer is all that you need.

Ogle is purely a DVD player and was the first to support DVD menus and navigation, the code of which is now used in the Xine plugin as mentioned earlier. As with VideoLAN Client and MPlayer, Ogle uses libcss and libdvdread to decode and read DVDs. The MPEG decoder features various levels of acceleration to take advantage of MMX processors and some hardware MPEG decoders.

Ogle can be run directly from the shell, but a GUI is also available if you prefer. The GUI is more compact than VideoLAN Client’s, but manages to contain more functionality. All of the major functions are present, such as pausing, forwarding the DVD and menu keys. That said, the interface to the control GUI is still larger than the standard MPlayer GUI and is not as nice to look at. Unfortunately, although there is an option to edit preferences, it is not currently functional.

When you first access your DVD from Ogle you are presented with the DVD menu, which you navigate using your mouse. You also can navigate the DVD menu by using the arrows on the GUI, but navigation using the mouse seems to be the easiest method by far. Unfortunately, playback of encrypted DVDs is occasionally not as smooth as with VideoLAN Client or MPlayer as there are freezes and audio glitches. However, this is occasional and does not detract too much from watching a DVD, but it might be a consideration. As with the other players reviewed, you can switch between windowed and full-screen mode, and again, switching between the modes goes smoothly.

Ogle does have a few drawbacks, the main ones being that there is no chapter menu support, no angle selection during playback and no closed-caption support. The most annoying issue is that you have to restart Ogle to play another DVD, which is the same problem MPlayer has. These may not be major issues to you but are worth taking into consideration.

Ogle is the only one of the players reviewed here that only plays DVDs and not any other formats. Its main claim to fame was the DVD menu support, but thanks to the fact that Ogle is open-source, the code base is now being used in other players. If you only want to play DVDs, then Ogle is worth reviewing, but if your needs are wider than that, you probably will want to look at one of the other players.

In conclusion, playing your bought-and-paid-for DVDs under your favorite OS is now achieved easily using any of the players reviewed here. There are many other players available; the ones we reviewed here have the most supporters and users. As always, because there are a wide range of DVD players to choose from, you should be able to find a player to suit your requirements. So go ahead and enjoy your DVDs on your GNU/Linux box.

Cool DVD player is a high definition media player which supports a wide variety of video formats. It can put the super computation capability of dual-core CPU into full play and the latest dual-core decoding technology makes your PC the perfect HD video and audio playback platform
It is very popular in today’s DVD Player software market, and its users love it deeply. Our testing report shows that the functions of Cool DVD Player is powerful.
Meanwhile, Cool DVD Player is a complete compatible media player and it can support a wide variety of video formats including HDTV, DVD, VCD, MPEG1/2/4, AVI, RM, MOV, MP3 etc. Cool DVD Player can be extensively compatible with hardware, which is operated stably, smoothly under Windows 2000 XP system.

the magic DVD player can be taken as your home video theatre on your desk pc or notebook pc.you can gain the best video and audio effects like high-definition pictures and living sounds . you can even change the image of the play screen to your own pictures .it also can display the same subtitles as you see on your home video theatre.playing anything don’t possess more pc resources, it doesn’t bring any adverse influences of the other important tasks executed on your computer .it can supports almost all media format and Dolby 5.1 Channels Support, DTS through SPDIF and mutli- language.

* License: Adware FREE
* OS: Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, 98, Me
* Requirements: DirectX 9.0 or higher
* Publisher: Cliprex Video Software
* Homepage: http://www.cliprex.com

Cliprex DVD Player software is the free solution for playing DVDs on the PC. Cliprex DVD Player Professional will handle playback of both commercial and consumer-created DVDs. Beside DVD video it supports most well known video standard formats, like DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, ASF, Video CD, Super Video CD and any other Videofile you have the codec installed for.

This software DVD player gives an impressive video and sound quality with an easy navigation interface through a context menu. Features are: Automatic aspect ratio, audio stream selection, selection of available subtitles, easy chapter selection for the DVD menu, bookmarks management, angle selection, resume option of a specific DVD, fullscreen/desktop play and more options. This version of Cliprex DVD Player Professional is free for viewing DVD videos and other videos on a home PC or NoteBook computer

The DVD player supports any codec and movie types that are supported by Windows video players, and will play smoothly and on full screen any type of movie and video you will wish to watch.

This software also provides full support in all types of foreign language subtitles, to automatically embed and watch the videos with the matching subtitles by name.