Freeware CD/DVD

Burrrn

Burrrn is a program for easily creating audio CDs from all sorts of audio files. You can also create your CDs with CD-Text if you choose.

CDBurnerXP Pro is an easy to use CD/DVD burning software, that can write CD-R and CD-RW discs. The program can also write disks directly from an ISO image file, and save image as an ISO image file (*.iso). You can create data and audio CDs, and it supports Burn-Proof technology, multi-session disks, import of ISO images and more. In addition to CD burning, you can also rip audio CDs, normalize WAV files, encode MP3 files, erase disks, and more. The program can also convert .BIN and .NRG (Nero) images to .ISO format.

DVD Decrypter

DVD Decrypter is a freeware program that can create backup disc images or the DVD-Video structure of DVDs. It can be used to make and burn an image of any DVD. It can also decrypt copy-protected movies. Disc images can be viewed on the PC, encoded to a smaller size and stripped of unwanted extras with DVD Shrink, exported to VCD, SVCD or DivX format and recorded onto CD-R or CD-RW media and written onto a DVD for playback on a hardware DVD player.

DVD Flick

DVD Flick is a free DVD authoring tool. It allows you to burn one or many video files on a DVD that can be played back on a DVD player. It can also create an ISO image from the video files you choose which can be burnt later.

DVD Shrink

DVD Shrink is a tool to backup DVD movies. DVD movies are usually dual-layer, while most blank DVD media are single layer. DVD Shrink can re-encode the movie in a lower quality and/or discard unneeded extra content. DVD Shrink outputs the movie as an ISO file which can be copyed to a DVD using DVD Decrypter.

DVDx

DVDx allows you to convert DVD videos to VCD 2.0 or SCVD 1.0 files in one step (including multiplexing and splitting). It produces good quality videos in MPEG 1 or MPEG 2 format. DVDx has been designed especially for novice users, and has a simple and intuitive interface. Once the image is created a VCD or SVCD burning program such as VCDEasy can be used to write the video to a standard CD for playback in a DVD player.

Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy, often simplified to EAC, is a CD ripping program. Exact Audio Copy can extract audio from a CD to WAV, MP3, VQF, RA or AAC. EAC can rip CDs virtually flawlessly. It features jitter correction, normalization of extracted audio, glitch removal after extraction, variable bitrates and automatic CD track information recognition.

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a program for copying CDs and DVDs. It can write image files to CD, as well as read content form a CD to an image file. It can also verify the disc's conent after it is writen on.

RipIt4Me

RipIt4Me works with DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter to back up DVDs with newer and stronger copy protections. DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter are required to use this program.

VCDEasy

VCDEasy 1.1.5.2 (last freeware version) allows you to play video files on most DVD players by burning videos to a VCD or SVCD. The user can configure almost all aspects of VideoCD specifications such as playback control based interactivity, chapters, menus support, CD-i support and more.