copying my dvds to my laptop
 

Anyone know a good program to rip dvds? I want to load up my laptop so i have movies to watch while flying to and from the inlaws for xmas.

Decss and smartripper (I think that's the name)

Try Doom9 and get DVD Decrypter or Smartripper. If you feel like being adventurous, you can even re-encode your movies to DivX so they take up less space on your HD.

SmartRipper & AutoGK is my favorite pair of utilities on my laptop.

SmartRipper goes from the DVD itself to a decrypted VOB files on your harddrive. AutoGK will go from the decrypted VOB files to an XViD file - you tell it the size you want. It [b]will[b/] take a while to run AutoGK - put aside a good 8 hours for a full length DVD.

SmartRipper should run fairly quickly, though.

Both of these can be found on Doom9

Thanks for the help. Doom9 is a good site. Now I have another Prob.
I ripped a movie using smartripper and gordian knot, and xvid encoded it, but the sound runs at 1x speed and the movie at 2x
am I doing something wrong? Im sure I am but I dont know what.

If you follow Doom9's AutoGK Tuturoial it will rip and re-encode into Xvid just fine... what did you use to rip/encode the audio track?