Depending on how nerd you are, but I have been looking for a good method to digitalize my collection in an acceptable resolution, using a widely used format and keep subtitles and audio languages.
In short, I found a couple of BASH scripts that utilizes the command line version of Handbrake and a few built-in Linux commands to help out. The scripts are slightly modified from the original as I found it necessary.
I’m comfortable with the command line as a long time Linux user and command line applications can be scripted, take input from other commands etc, without requiring pre-made widgets for every little feature needed to accomplish the job.
The first looks for the longest title on the DVD and take that title-number and extracts using High Profile setting the title with all (or most) subtitles and audio languages.
ripfilm.sh
To rip TV series, a different script was made. This script looks for titles within a predefined range of length. This script also can take some input arguments, check them out with -h.
I discovered that it could fail in some cases, but it was solved when I installed the nightly version of HandbrakeCLI. Nightly builds are based on the latest development code which means they may or may not be stable and probably won’t be documented.
Thanks to https://github.com/sbutcher/ripomatic