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CLUSTER DESKTOP-BLU-DVD · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-11-13

Optical disc utility apps

This cluster consists of desktop applications for ripping, burning, converting, and managing optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray). The dated entries appear as isolated months spread from Nov 2014 to Apr 2025, with no consecutive months, indicating sporadic creation. All three traction leaders (dvdrip, MakeMKV, qdvd) show zero stars, so no clear leader emerges from activity data.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2014: 1JAN 2018: 1MAR 2019: 1SEP 2023: 1NOV 2023: 1APR 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 4
NOV 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 8 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01makemkv-web0★7 days—hobbySelf-hosted web app for ripping Blu-ray discs to video files via a browser interface on headless hardware.
  2. 02DiscAuthor-Community0★12 days—hobbyDVD and Blu-ray authoring app for Macs that creates playable discs with menus from video content.
  3. 03transcode0★2 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that rips and encodes video from DVDs and other sources.
  4. 04Redumper GUI0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users dump optical discs through a graphical interface instead of typing command-line commands.
  5. 05dvdrip0★4 moliveopen sourceDVD ripper that extracts and compresses DVD content into digital files for backup.
  6. 06MakeMKV0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop tool that converts DVD and Blu-ray discs into a standard video file format and streams decrypted video to network players.
  7. 07MakeMKV0★unknownliveDesktop application that rips and converts DVD and Blu-ray discs into unencrypted video files or streams them directly to media players.
  8. 08qdvd0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that creates video DVDs from source footage for personal or professional archiving.
  9. 09PowerISO0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop utility for creating, editing, burning, encrypting, and mounting CD, DVD, and Blu-ray disc image files.
  10. 10Aegis DVD Backup0★unknownliveDesktop application that backs up and archives DVDs to local storage, creating ISO images and VIDEO_TS folders with copy-protection handling.
  11. 11freemkv0★unknownliveopen sourceDisc ripping application that converts DVDs, Blu-rays, and UHD discs to MKV, MP4, or M2TS with automatic decryption and damaged-disc recovery.
  12. 12Brasero0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for creating, copying, and burning data and audio CDs and DVDs with drag-and-drop file support.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.