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AutoBrake.sh
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.
Key Features
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
- liba52/a52dec to decode and downmix a DVD's AC3 audio tracks to a neutral format
- OggEnc, typically provided by the Vorbis-Tools package
Still to be Added
- Multi-track ripping — Currently, only the longest track is automatically ripped by default
- The ability to choose from a few different audio and video codecs, e.g. Xvid, MP3, AAC (though H.264/Ogg will remain the defaults)
- Possibly a batch encoding mode
Download
⇒ The latest version of AutoBrake.sh is 0.8.21, and can be downloaded here: http://autobrake.info/pub/autobrake.sh
Happy archiving!
-Chris
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