Projects without which BDHero would not be possible:
- CinemaSquid BDInfo: Blu-ray analysis tool
- FFmpeg: Cross-platform audio/video converter
- MKVToolNix: Cross-platform tool suite for the Matroska media container format (MKV)
Tools that helped guide the features and interface of BDHero:
- HandBrake: Cross-platform video transcoder
- VidCoder: HandBrake-based video transcoder for Windows
- tsMuxeR: Abandoned MPEG Transport Stream and Matroska muxer
- MakeMKV: Cross-platform Blu-ray™/DVD to MKV muxer
Open community-driven databases used by BDHero:
- TMDb (API reference): Movie database
- TVDB (API reference): TV show database
- ChapterDb: Blu-ray and DVD chapter database
Projects that make programming more enjoyable:
- Ninject: Dependency Injection IoC container
- Apache log4net: Logging framework
- Newtonsoft Json.NET: JSON serializer/deserializer
- RestSharp: Simple REST and HTTP API client
- WatTMDb: Wrapper for the TMDb API
The best of the best of the best, sir!
- Git: Blazing fast cross-platform distributed version control system (VCS)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
- JetBrains ReSharper 8: Code inspection, automated code refactoring, blazing fast navigation, and coding assistance
- Inno Setup: Fast, free setup builder for Windows
- BitRock InstallBuilder 8 Enterprise: Cross-platform installer (free for open source projects!)
- 7-Zip: Free file archiver with superior compression ratios
- MediaInfo: Displays detailed technical information about media containers, tracks, and codecs (cross-platform)
- MPC-HC: Extremely light-weight open source media player (Windows only)
- Process Explorer: Displays detailed technical information about Windows processes
- Link Shell Extension: Windows shell extension that provides drag-and-drop symbolic linking (symlink)
- RegexBuddy: The best regular expression testing tool on the planet (Windows only)
- PowerGREP: Powerful regular expression file search-and-replace tool (Windows only)
- GitHub: Centralized Git repository with integrated issue tracker
- Amazon Web Services: Virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery network (CDN), and domain name system (DNS) authority