Handbrake is nice but can't handle more than CSS. Most big titles which tend to get the newest confusication technologies will completely baffle it. Ditto with Shrink, whose development IIRC was halted by DMCA threats from our fair-use friends at Sony.
Here's another vote for DVDFab, sometimes just to pull the main title from a horribly confused DVD. Then Shrink ,or even VobBlanker for better control.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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