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Video ripping

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/DVDs_rippen/

HandBrake

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/HandBrake/ https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/table-of-contents.html

Handbrake CLI

Show DVD iso infos:

lsdvd -x video.iso

Otherwise, mediainfo shows details of other video files.

Then, rip it:

HandBrakeCLI --preset "General/Very Fast 480p30" --subtitle-lang-list eng,de \
  --audio-lang-list eng,de -i video.iso -o video.mp4

makemkvcon

https://www.makemkv.com/ https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/MakeMKV/

ISO to MKV:

makemkvcon mkv iso:./movie.iso all .

Files to MKV

makemkvcon mkv file:/path/to/the/VIDEO_TS/ all .

Stale / unmaintained

Install libdvdcss to decrypt DRM-encrypted DVDs

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/DVD-Wiedergabe/#Libdvdcss

  sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
  sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg