Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

OGMRIP

Application for ripping and encoding DVD (Simple and Easy Interface)

ogmrip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM MP4 or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, oggenc, lame and faac to perform its tasks.

o transcodes from DVD or files
 o outputs ogm, avi, mp4 or matroska files
 o calculates video bitrate for a given filesize
 o calculates cropping parameters and scaling factors
 o supports multiple audio and subtitles streams encoding
 o lots of codecs (vorbis, mp3, pcm, ac3, dts, aac, xvid, lavc, x264, theora)
 o uses maximum quality codec switches
 o rips contiguous chapters

Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

K3B

A sophisticated KDE CD burning application

K3b is a GUI frontend to the CD recording programs cdrdao and cdrecord. Its aim is to provide a very user friendly interface to all the tasks that come with cd recording.
It can be used to copy CDs and burn:

- audio CDs (from wav, mp3 or ogg vorbis files)
 - data CDs and DVDs
 - mixed-mode CDs (CD-Extra support)
 - VCDs (1.1, 2.0 and SVCD)
 - ISO files (Joliet/Rockridge and El Torito support)
 - eMovix CDs

For more information, visit the homepage at http://www.k3b.org

Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

LEAFPAD

GTK+ based simple text editor

Leafpad is a simple GTK+ based text editor, the user interface is similar to Notepad. It aims to be lighter than GEdit & KWrite, and to be as useful as them.