Version 0.10.9

Download DVD Tamer

DVD Tamer is free to use, for personal or business purposes (license). Get it, then the free tools it uses. Name lookups (TheTVDB, TMDb, TVmaze) are built in: there's nothing to sign up for.

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Installs for your user account, with no administrator rights needed.

Download for Windows 69 MB

DVDTamer-0.10.9-setup-x64.exe

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may warn about an unknown publisher: choose More info, then Run anyway.

Linux

An AppImage for 64-bit Linux (x86_64). Nothing to install: make it executable and run it. It includes ffmpeg.

Download for Linux 118 MB

DVDTamer-0.10.9-x86_64.AppImage

chmod +x DVDTamer-*-x86_64.AppImage
./DVDTamer-*-x86_64.AppImage

Check a download: SHA-256 checksums. DVD Tamer works with unencrypted DVD-Video ISOs and VIDEO_TS folders; it doesn't do Blu-ray. Not on Windows or Linux? A Mac version isn't available yet.

The tools it uses

DVD Tamer uses these free programs, installed separately (the Linux AppImage includes ffmpeg). Install them once. If one is missing, DVD Tamer says so when it's needed and links you here, or lets you point at it.

VLC media player Required

Plays the disc's menus inside DVD Tamer.

Windows: install the 64-bit VLC. DVD Tamer finds it by itself.

VLC for Windows

Linux: use your distribution's VLC. The Flatpak and Snap versions can't be used by other programs. DVD Tamer offers to install it on first start, or run:

# Debian, Ubuntu, Mint
sudo apt install vlc
# Fedora (VLC from RPM Fusion)
sudo dnf install vlc vlc-plugins-all
# Arch
sudo pacman -S vlc vlc-plugins-all
# openSUSE
sudo zypper install vlc

All VLC downloads

ffmpeg Required to rip

Writes the files: MKV, the built-in MP4 and the disc menus. Already included in the Linux AppImage.

Windows: download a build (the "release essentials" zip from gyan.dev works), then unzip it so that C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe exists. DVD Tamer looks there, in Program Files and on your PATH, or choose it in Preferences.

ffmpeg for Windows (gyan.dev) ffmpeg.org

With winget: winget install Gyan.FFmpeg

HandBrake Optional

Only for encoding with your own HandBrake presets. DVD Tamer needs HandBrakeCLI, HandBrake's command-line version, and imports your presets from the HandBrake app.

Windows: download the command-line version, unzip it, and put HandBrakeCLI.exe in C:\Program Files\HandBrake (next to HandBrake.exe), or choose it in Preferences.

Linux: sudo apt install handbrake-cli or sudo pacman -S handbrake-cli; other distributions: see HandBrake's guide.

HandBrakeCLI HandBrake app

Azure AI Vision Optional

Reads menu text that's hard to read: stylized fonts, text over moving video, dim buttons. More buttons read means more titles named before you click.

On Windows, DVD Tamer reads menus with Windows' built-in OCR without it. On Linux, menu reading needs Azure; without it, names come from the folder name and the online catalogues.

The free tier gives 5,000 reads a month; a disc usually needs a few dozen. Microsoft asks for a card to verify your account; the free tier isn't charged.

Create a Computer Vision resource How to set it up

Watch the disc menus

The .ovmz menus DVD Tamer writes play on anything that supports Open Video Menu. Your files play normally everywhere else.

On your TV

ovmplayer for Google TV, Android TV and Roku, with your Plex or Jellyfin library.

Get ovmplayer

Jellyfin

In Dashboard → Plugins → Repositories, add this address, then install Open Video Menu and restart Jellyfin:

https://github.com/tyson133-prog/openvideomenu/releases/latest/download/jellyfin-repository.json

Plex

Run the menu server on the computer that runs Plex. It signs in to Plex for you.

Menu server for Windows

Linux and Docker: openvideomenu.org

Want to see a menu before ripping anything? Download two example titles (about 250 MB) and copy their folders into your libraries.