I had a bunch of DVD's that I want to rip to avi-files.

Linux Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
mencoder 1.1-4.8

Basic 'problem': How to be 'sure' to always get Swedish subText from my DVD's to my AVI-files.

Notice: I'm a Swedish guy (old man, born 1955) so if my 'English' is a little confused, be patience, please 😉
And: I'm familiar with terminal syntax and bash-scripting.
The goal is to write a bash-script so I can right-click on the DVD's <real place> and click a menu title in the pop-up menu and it result in a watch-able AVI-movie (on my LG-Flat-TV) via a USB storage.

I use this, so far (in Nautilus terminal):
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device <the real place> -nosound -ovc frameno -o /dev/null -vobsubid 6 -slang sv -vobsubout sv
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device <the real place> -vobsub sv -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:vol=3 -xvidencopts pass=1 -o <The Movie Name>.avi
rm sv.*

This give a out avi-file i about 1.6GB (It is no problem for me. But if I can do it 'smaller' without quality lose > that’s OK for me 🙂 )

Can I do the above mencoder-syntax easier / better?

Is there a syntax, that for sure, always give me Swedish subText?

I notice that mencoder not find any Swedish subText in '-vobsubid 6' then mencoder 'pass' over to '-slang sv' and find the Swedish subText.

If I leave '-vobsubid 6' and only use '-slang sv', I get no subText, at all, or instead I get English or Finnish…?

Is the mencoder options;
'-vobsuboutid sv' & '-vobsuboutindex <something>' and '-sid <something>'
better replacements, complement or more useful, or not?

Is there any Swedish 'hen' how had done this (trough mencoder) successfully for a bunch of DVD's?

Regards to ALL!

N-G Nordlundh.