Does anyone have a good program for archiving DVD movies?

[SKKY]

I use "dvd shrink" on my wife's Micro$oft machine, but I'd like to find one that runs on Linux.

[RoyGBiv]

1. dvd::rip

I use this:

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

Most archiving applications of this variety are front-ends for various programs that, together, do what you need to do. Here's a list of the important dependencies. Version numbers are just the versions I have, not necessarily the versions you need. Not listed is libdvdcss, which you need for anything that is encrypted, which is everything commercial.

transcode 1.0.3
ImageMagick 6.3.0
ffmpeg SVN-r10279,
xvid4conf 1.12
subtitle2pgm 0.3
lsdvd 0.16
rar 2.71
mplayer 1.0
ogmtools 1.5
dvdxchap 1.5
mjpegtools 1.8.0
xine 0.99.5
hal 0.5.8

I've read, but cannot confirm, that libdvdcss won't work with Sony encryption, and those who report this say that dvdshrink is the only thing that will. I, personally, haven't run across anything I couldn't archive.

[qnr]

2. I've never had a problem either, Sony or otherwise n/t

[Recursion]

3. DVD::Rip is a big one

It's a frontend to transcode. Also dvdbackup and (if you have plenty of diskspace) dvdcopy

[alfredo]

4. Handbrake

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

[JPettus]

5. I'm using Acidrip

And it's very easy to use once you play with it a little. I *have* found a few movies that I couldn't rip and I may spend some more time with DVDrip to see if I can get those to rip correctly.