DVD Flick is an open source

DVD authoring DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum. DVD authoring is the second step in the process of producing finished D ...

application for

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developed by Dennis Meuwissen and released under the

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. DVD Flick is capable of importing audio tracks, video files and

subtitles Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary, caption ...

, composing a DVD-Video movie and burning it to a disc – or creating an

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for later burning. DVD Flick supports 53 container formats, 42 different types of

audio codec An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software, an audio codec is a computer program implementing an algorithm that compresses and decompres ...

s and 72 different types of

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s, including Windows Media formats,

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, Flash Video and various

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-compliant formats. DVD Flick is also capable of importing four subtitle formats, namely ''

SubStation Alpha Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary, captions ...

'' (.ssa/ .ass), ''

MicroDVD MicroDVD is a subtitle file format for digital video. Its name is derived from the MicroDVD Player, a media player application designed to play DVD videos along with subtitles, originally developed by Tiamat Software. The application was first re ...

'' (.sub), ''

SubRip SubRip is a free software program for Microsoft Windows which extracts subtitles and their timings from various video formats to a text file. It is released under the GNU GPL. Its subtitle format's file extension is .srt and is widely supported ...

'' (.srt) and ''SubView''. Although DVD Flick does not feature video editing capabilities, it can read and interpret

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scripts and create simple menus. DVD Flick uses

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to encode DVD-Video. DVD Flick features direct

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copy for DVD-compliant MPEG-2 video streams only, but such a feature is not available for audio streams, meaning audio streams are always re-encoded in the process of DVD creation. ''

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'' has praised DVD Flick, awarding it a rating of 5 out of 5.

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Menu Creator for DVD Flick
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Free DVD burning software Software that uses FFmpeg Video conversion software Windows-only free software {{windows-software-stub

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