[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“A DVD ripper software allows you to copying the
content of a DVD to a hard disk drive. You transfer video on DVDs
to different formats, or make a backup of DVD content, and to
convert DVD video for playback on media players, streaming, and
mobile phone. A few DVD rippers software can copy protected disks
so that you can make discs unrestricted and region-free.“Please note that most of the following programs can rip
encrypted DVDs, as long as you have libdvdcss2 installed as
described here. Please check the copyright laws for your country
regarding the backup of any copyright-protected DVDs and other
media.#1: AcidRIP
“AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder (ripping
and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder) written in Perl,
using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD
just one button click! You can install it as follows under Debian /
Ubuntu Linux:”