DVDx 4.0 video encoder and DVD ripper, powered by MPlayer, Mencoder and FFmpeg engines. Powerful enough to rip almost any DVD (some very high-level protections may require DVDFab Passkey for DVD).

Starbuck's FreePlayer is full-featured multimedia player with an exclusive video web browser à la Chromium and network media ripper. Full-featured DVD player with DVD menu navigation. Nin-Western subtitle support (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Greek, Cyrillic (Russian,), Arabic, Hebrew, ...).

  • Play video streams that VideoLan VLC fails
    (WMV with multiple video tracks, broken files)
  • Powered by MPlayer and MPlayer2.
  • Free: gratis and open-source GPL'd)
  • Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
Preview encoding and DVD ripping!
Full-featured media player with web browser!

MakeMKV rips Bluray and DVD discs into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters. MKV files can be played with Starbuck's Freeplayer and can be transcoded to AVI, MP4, MOV and more formats with DVDx 4.0 .

  • MakeMKV is integrated with DVDx 4.1Registration required for Bluray ($50)
  • Free Beta version (30-day full functional)
  • Free for DVD
  • Integrated into DVDx 4.1
  • Windows, Linux and Mac OS X

DVDFab Passkey for Blu-ray and DVDFab Passkey for DVD as a Windows-based driver, decrypts any Blu-ray or DVD disc on the fly to allow you to use other compatible software as if disc is not protected. It works well with DVDx 4.0 and Starbuck's Freeplayer.

  • AwardsPasskey for Bluray ($60)
  • Passkey for DVD ($40)
  • Passkey Lite (free!)
  • Windows only
Rip Bluray and DVD discs to MKV!
Decrypt DVD & Bluray on-the-fly!

We create and distribute multimedia software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Founded by digital video pioneers, labDV has been successful in providing information, help and software for digital video enthusiasts since 2002. In the early 2010, empowered by 10-year experience in digital video, labDV crew has decided to move to a software-editor company.