How to rip DVDs using "structural protections" in linux?

dvdfab has a CLI

Ok, so where is it documented? I can't find any instructions for anything but the GUI on the dvdfab website?

It seems to me that you almost answered your own question. mplayer dvdnav://<title> -dumpstream -dumpfile movie.mpg This dumps the selected title to the file movie.mpg. movie.mpg is a program stream that any transcoder should handle fine.

Hmm, you know what I didn't try that with dvdnav, let me do that and see if it works. Ok, that does seem to work, I tried the same thing with vlc transcoding and it didn't work, which is why I assumed this wouldn't work (I guess that's what I get for not trying it). I need to test this file to see if it dumps everything though, because I think it may not dump all the subtitle & audio tracks, so I may have to do multiple dumps to get the streams I want... Well well, works fine after only doing it once. I attached my amateurish little script, I did the mplayer line you gave manually since my script uses existing files as drop ins in case I need to do something manually like this. I'll probably add an option to use dvdnav instead whenever there are issues. Code: