Ripping TV episodes from DVDs – how can I know which stream belongs to which episode?

Question

I'm ripping DVDs using a series of calls like

mplayer -dumpfile foo$i.vob -dumpstream dvd://$i

and using lsdvd to list the available streams to rip. Here is an example command I wrote for this

for i in $(lsdvd 2>&1 | egrep "^Title" | sed -e 's|Title: \(..\).*|\1|g'); 
  do mplayer -dumpfile foo$i.vob -dumpstream dvd://$i; 
done

For DVDs of TV shows, how do I know which streams go together for each 'episode', in other words, can I somehow rip the "episode guide" from the disc as well?

Answer 1

For DVD ripping, I generally use a GUI program that can show previews, which makes it easier to determine which episode is what. The tool I use most often is Handbrake.

How to determine stream/episode correlation from commandline, I don't know.