DVD ripping with MEncoder

From where I learned:
MEncoder DVD to MPEG-4
Making a high quality MPEG-4 (divx) rip of a DVD movie (mplayerhq manual)
HOWTO: rip DVDs in MPEG-4 (ubuntuforums)

And this turned out to be the most useful:
SimpleRip: Ripping / Encoding DVD-s to Xvid with MEncoder

An automated way should be AcidRip, but it somehow got the code messed-up, when shell-script exported, and I had to correct it manually. What I learned from it is how to handle frameno.avi and divx2pass.log:

#!/bin/sh
echo "***********************************************************"
echo "Automated script created by AcidRip - http://acidrip.sf.net"
echo "***********************************************************"

unlink frameno.avi 2> /dev/null
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd  -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=740:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=3:vpass=1 -vf crop=672:432:24:22    -o "/dev/null"
mencoder dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd  -aid 129 -oac mp3lame -lameopts mode=2:cbr:br=128  -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=740:vhq:v4mv:vqmin=3:vpass=2 -vf crop=672:432:24:22    -o "/home/user/movie.avi"
unlink divx2pass.log  2> /dev/null

As for the subtitle (.idx + .sub = VOBSUB format):
I want to convert them to SRT.
--> I used AVIDEMUX (downloaded from Synaptic) It worked fine.