First off, I would like to say it is a wonderful program(as is). I really like the feature of exporting the queqe as a shell script. Someday , I would hope to write something so good(my current programmings skills are a little weak)

I would like to change the progam in this fashion. I currently rip my dvds to my harddrive with another program, then use AcipRip to encode them to mpeg4. I currently have this line in my .acidriprc
the $DIR is not a varibable, but more of a marker for me. when I start acidrip, I then replace $DIR with the directory(which is also the title) of my dvd. So I only have to make minimal changes before encoding.

the value that I add to "track title"(title of my movie) gets set to %T, which is then used for the expansion of "filename" example /home/shane/movies/%T

if I set my "track title" to "killbill_vol1" I will get this expansion for my "filename"
is there a way to get that same variable to expand in dvd_device like the following
so this would expand to
if this could be accomplished, I would only have to set one parameter when encoding a movie, the parameter of "Track Title"

I am not sure how involved of a process this would be, but would appreciate any direction. I have some experience with bash and python, but none with perl.

Isn't acidrip written by acid_kewpie? (Aka, one of the mods here) Perhaps that trick already exists and he knows how to do it. I took a glance at the code, but I haven't worked with perl in a few years, so I'll be honest and admit that I couldn't find anything.

that why I posted here, Having designed the program, he would know best how to change it :-)

It would probably be worth your while emailling him, he may not see this thread.

You know, that makes me think of something... my biggest problem in software dev is that, despite wanting to create programs, I can never come up with good original ideas. *sigh*

sorry my original question ws kind of a mess. Below is a much cleaner question

I would like to use the %T varibale in dvd_device llike this

below is from .acidriprc
as is %T does not expand in that situation. Would it be possible to get varaible expnasion in the dvd_device variable?