One thing I did find strange is that the program didn’t automatically detect the DVD I’d loaded in my drive, instead I had to manually select the correct device. Upon opening the application for the first time you’re presented with a pretty nice looking interface, simple enough and not overcrowded but incorporating all the features you could need. Once installed the application should just appear on your menu, for me it was in the MintMenu under “Sound & Video” so it’s likely to be in a similar place even if you’re using a different flavour of Linux. It’s worth having a look around before you start I’d say.
#Using handbrake to rip dvd in terminal code#
You can download the source code and build the application yourself which isn’t as daunting as it sounds or it’s possible some other distributions might have their own binary packages.
There are “.deb” packages built for Ubuntu on the Handbrake website so it’s simply a matter of double clicking to install, who says Linux has to be hard eh? Admittedly if you’re on a non Debian-based system it might be not be quite so simple for you. Installing the program was nice and simple for me on Linux Mint 6.
#Using handbrake to rip dvd in terminal free#
Handbrake is licensed under the GPL and as such is completely free and open source software, with all these facts and endorsements ringing in my ears I figured I should take it for a spin, no pun intended. There’s been a command line version of Handbrake on Linux for quite some time I believe but I never used it, I can handle myself pretty well in a terminal but it just didn’t appeal.
I have some Mac using friends who really like it and often tell me how good it is for ripping discs. I’d heard a while back that the popular program Handrake had now released a Linux version with a GUI ( Graphical User Interface) and it seemed a good idea to try it out. I’m not overly experienced at doing this sort of thing, in the past I’ve always got the job done with applications like dvd:rip but not had a very satisfying experience. I decided earlier this week I needed to rip a DVD and looked around at the available options on Linux.
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