[ale] DVD ripping tools & distro of choice?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:43 -0400, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> Question:  What (if any) DVD ripping tools can you recommend
> for busting movies down to HDD?  Hardware for this new server 
> I have in mind will be a recycled AMD X2 4200+ w/2G a basic 
> system drive and whatever for storage (1-2TB).  Thinking of 
> Mythbuntu for the platform unless anyone has a distro already in 
> service that they'd highly recommend for that task........Rich

I start with DVD Decrypter.  You'll have to google it.  It is Windows
but if you run winecfg and set compatibility mode to Win98 it will work
well under Linux.