Backup DVD using HandBrakeCLI
Posted by Pontus Ullgren on Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Making copies of your DVD movies into MKV format has never been easier thanks to HandBrake.
Below is a small shell script that uses HandBrakeCLI to save the longest title and Swedish subtitle into MKV format.
#!/bin/bash
# This is a simple shell script which will
# grab the longest title and Swedish subtitle and
# then encode it as MKV
#
TITLE=`lsdvd -c | grep "Disc Title" | gawk '{
print tolower($3);
}'`
HandBrakeCLI -f mkv -N swe -m -i /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS -o $TITLE.mkv -e ffmpeg -b 2000 -B 192 --longest
Later versions of HandBrakeCLI uses the commandline option --main-feature instead of --longest.