Transmageddon is a video transcoder for Linux which uses GStreamer. The latest 1.0 release comes with changes such as:
This version only works in Ubuntu 14.04. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmageddon
Or download the deb from HERE and install it manually.
To be able to rip DVDs using Transmageddon, you'll need to make sure that lsdvd, libdvdread4 and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly are installed (and install libdvdcss2 via libdvdread4):
sudo apt-get install lsdvd libdvdread4 gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh