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In this article, i am doing a roundup of the already discussed utilities related to CD’s and DVD’s.

These utilities are meant to help you carry out various tasks like reading scratched CD’s or DVD’s,removing copy protection from your discs, converting discs to various formats and burning data on your discs.

In order to learn more about these utilities click on the hyperlinks below.

1.) Recover Files from Scratched CD’s and DVD’s using RoadKil Unstoppable Copier

If you are ever dealing with CD or DVD discs which have got scratched and therefore not playing on your DVD player, you might want ot use RoadKil Unstoppable Copier. Click here to learn how you can copy contents from scratched CD’s and DVD’s using RoadKil Unstoppable Copier.

2.) Remove Copy Protection from CD or DVD using DVD43 or AnyDVD

You got yourself copy of your favorite movie as rental from Netflix and now want to copy that disc to your hard disk, but can’t. Thanks to softwares like DVD43 and  AnyDVD, you can now copy such discs.

Following two articles are worth a visit

Remove Copy Protection From DVDs With DVD43

Copy copyprotected DVD’s with ANYDVD.

3.) Burn CD’s and DVD’s with Nero 9 or CDBurnerXP

So you have all the video files on your hard disk, but you do not know how to burn them on the disc, well, get yourself a free copy of Nero 9 or go ahead and read more about CDBurnerXP.

4.) Create Professional Looking DVD Menus using DVD Styler

If you are looking at a way to create DVD’s which look professional, you might want to use another freeware called DVD Styler.

Read more about DVD Styler in my previous article here.

5.) Rip, Backup and Compress DVD’s using DVD Shrink

Another very cool freeware application, called DVDShrink. It can allow you to rip discs, remove copy protection, allows you to re-author content on the disc and even compress a DVD-9 format disc. Read more about the capabilities of DVDShrink here.

6.) Convert DVD’s to MPEG-4 Format with HandBrake

HandBrake is a free open-source program designed to convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into an MPEG-4 video file in .mp4 or .mkv containers. Handbrake is available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Essentially, HandBrake is a video transcoder that takes your movies as input and transfers them to a format that’s useful on your computers, media centers, and portable electronic devices ( like iPod). It converts almost any video formats to a handful of modern ones.

Read more about HandBrake in my article here.

What other DVD tools do you recommend?

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Related posts:

1. [Freeware] Remove Copy Protection From DVDs With DVD43
2. Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier Lets You Recover Files from Scratched CDs and DVDs
3. [Freeware] HandBrake is a DVD to MPEG-4 Converter
4. Backup and Copy your DVD Discs for Free using DVDShrink
5. Get iPods and iPhones in exchange for used CDs and DVDs with iPodMeister