ANDREW

ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but a command-line interface that simplifies the use of some application to create AVI, Matroska, MP4 or OGM files from DVDs. ANDREW runs in interactive or batch mode; works on-the-fly or ripping DVDs to hard drive; handles progressive, telecine and interlaced NTSC and PAL formats; controls needed disk space availability; encodes an entire title or few chapters only; selects multiple audio and subtitle tracks by preferences or in full manual mode; supports AVI, Matroska and OGM containers; splits movies in several files or encodes them by target size or video bit rate; uses two-pass or constant quality MPEG-4 ASP or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding; crops and scales the video automatically; uses AAC, MP3 or Vorbis audio encoding and AC-3 extraction; uses hard or soft encoding for subtitles from VobSub and SRT files; speaks English, Italian and Spanish.