[MPlayer-users] How programmatically determine the correct one of two english soundtracks for an encode

[Ron Johnson]

On 07/07/2012 06:57 PM, houghi wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 05:19:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Metadata regarding what audio track is which is sometimes embedded
>> in the title.  HandBrakeCLI knows how to extract it.  I use vlc to
>> go through each DVD to decide which titles and audio tracks to
>> extract.
>
> If you do a lot (I am working though 300 DVD's right now) then
> HandBrakeCLI is good enough. If it is a single DVD, HandBrakeGUI might be
> good and easy as well.
>

For me, it's mostly TV shows.  I rip the disk to an ISO, which is fast, 
then start the transcoding, which is of course slow.  As I create ISOs, 
I add the episodes to the "process queue".  Thus, I'm transcoding and 
ripping simultaneously.

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