Video/Capture & Recording
open source
VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a video capture / processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. It is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
shareware ($40}
Plato DVD Ripper
Plato DVD Ripper is designed for backing up your favorite DVD movie to your computer by converting DVD to AVI, DivX, XviD, VCD, SVCD, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 video files with almost same quality, but just only 10% size. Before you rip, you can choose subtitle,a udio track, frame rate and audio quality if needed, and its flexibility Output setting let you customize your generated Movie size.
open source
DVDStyler
DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. It is Free software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
shareware ($35}
Magic DVD Copier
Magic DVD Copier is a DVD copy software, which can copy a DVD movie to a blank DVD without loss of quality. You can then enjoy it on any PC or home DVD player. And it can also copy DVD movies to your hard drive without loss of quality, you can then enjoy them anytime without DVD discs.
freeware
AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot)
AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot) is a DivX / XviD backup utility. With support of DVD sources and other MPEG2 sources (such as DVB captures and transport streams) encoding into your favorite MPEG4 format was never as easy as now.
shareware ($39}
ZD Recorder
ZD Recorder is a unique software program that can record almost everything displaying on the computer screen, including desktop applications, PC games, various videos (streaming video, flash video, webcam video, DVD video, and etc.), and record audio from speaker or microphone simultaneously.
freeware
TMPGEnc
TMPGEnc converts *.AVI files to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCDs. Using a variety of options in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. It enables you to adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, interlacing and many other parameters so that you can create the most appropriate movie file depending on your needs.
freeware
Blu-ray Disc Ripper
Blu-ray Disc Ripper is a program which allows you to copy / decrypt / backup a Blu-ray Disc. It can remove Blu-ray region code as well.