I've been using lxdvdrip to rip a couple of DVDs that I own to my hard drive; and I usually am able to use just one command and let it do its thing, instead of waiting for all the prompts ("Select audio tracks?", "Specify burn location?", etc), using something such as 'lxdvdrip -u=a -a=2 -fv=~/film-dvd -lang=en -bp=0'. The problem is that this will only work for movies that have English audio tracks, and I have quite a few movies in other languages. There's no way to simply predict what audio tracks a movie will have, short of playing it and cycling through them all -- and what's more, there doesn't seem to be an lxdvdrip option to specify a language other than German, English or French; you have to choose it manually.

Is there a way -- using lxdvdrip or something else on the command line -- to list the particular properties of a DVD, specifically what audio tracks it has? Something kind of like the "exiftool" command for listing EXIF data.

I searched the forums a bit but didn't find anything; if someone could point me in the right direction that would be wonderful.

lsdvd should give you just what you want. You can probably also get the information through mplayer, maybe with some of the more verbose output options.