Handbrake will automatically select the "main movie" (it has some internal heuristics to pick the right track). However, you can manually select any given track. For the selected video track, it will show all available alternate audio tracks and automatically select that of your preferred language. For movies with subtitles you want to see (think the cantana scene in Star Wars Ep IV), you can select the "Foreign Audio Search" option and "burn" them into the video. All that said, there are a small handful of kids DVDs that I haven't converted because, like the example you provided, there are 20 short tracks and "interesting" menu options. But, for the common case, the resulting file provides a much better watching experience. Thomas On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, T L wrote: > >> Let me second the suggestion of Handbrake. Leave the ISOs where they are & >> set up a HandBrakeCLI process with the iPad or iPhone preset to batch >> convert the collection. The resulting MP4 or m4v files can be natively >> consumed by all modern devices. Plus, as a nice side effect, this will strip >> out all of the enforced previews /advertisements that so many DVDs have >> these days. It's a better watching experience, especially with kids who are >> eager to get to the desired content. > > > I've already stripped out the extra crap, but this Handbrake idea is > intriguing. How does it know which title to use? Does it preserve all of > the audio tracks and subtitles of all languages? > > How does it deal with DVD extras? Suppose I have a documentary with 20 > short interviews in separate titles -- what happens then? > > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list