AutoBrake.sh is a BASH script designed to make archiving DVDs as simple as possible. It utilizes the excellent HandBrakeCLI (along with a few other open-source tools), and is intended to be extremely user-friendly while still yielding uncompromisingly high-quality results.
Answer only 3 simple questions (title, target size, audio bitrate) then you're off and ripping!
Archives any standard DVD movie into the 3 best of breed open formats:
H.264 for the video codec,
Ogg Vorbis for audio, and
Matroska for the file container.
The built-in default
H.264 profile yields professional quality results every time.
Dumps the DVD to your
HDD before encoding to free up the disc and save your DVD-ROM some unnecessary wear and tear.
Automatically crops off unsightly black bars without the need for user intervention.
Audio is automatically normalized as part of the transcoding process, bringing movies with abnormally low volumes up to optimal values.
The script can clean up temporary files for you after completion.
Any UNIX-like environment that can run BASH,
1) e.g. Linux, Mac
OS X, or BSD
A copy of the latest
HandBrakeCLI for the platform of your choice
MPlayer, with which we rip the DVD and audio
MKVMerge, normally provided by the
MKVToolnix package
Normalize2) (available as
normalize-audio in Debian/Ubuntu repositories)
liba52/a52dec to decode and downmix a DVD's AC3 audio tracks to a neutral format
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