Absolutely , Doom9.org, Videohelp.com, and Afterdawn.com are all great STARTING resources for how to rip DVD's. I personally feel the best program to rip DVD's is DVDDecrypter (if you can still get your hands on it), as it defeats all copy-protection quickly and efficiently, and creates perfect images and backups of your DVD's. DVDShrink may be an acceptable means of ripping, but it is slow as a snail compared to DVDDecrypter. I would also sincerely recommend NOT using DVDShrink to actually recompress your backups, as it is based on an archaic encoder that leaves alot of bitmaps, blockiness, and image degradation behind. It is only an acceptable means of re-encoding if your movie will be retaining 90% or more of it's initial bitrate/quality, as it is a very fast program when it comes to encoding (hence the reason it does a half-ass job!) DVDDecrypter is the greatest thing to happen to the DVD scene ever. Not only can it create perfect .iso's of your DVD's, but also it is capable of ripping into VTS folders for easy re-encoding preparation. Last, but certainly not least, it is again, in my opinion, the best program for burning your DVD images as well, as it has a configurable buffer that out-sizes and out-performs virtually every other burning program there is. Long answer short:

DVDDecrypter is king!

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