OSEx for ripping if you want to make divx, etc. Or DVDBackup for an exact copy to your hard drive. My method to make a DVD copy of a DVD. Use DVDBackup to mirror the DVD to your HD. This will clear out the copy protection, region code etc. Use DVD2one to encode the DVDBackup copy (stripping out menues, subtitles, anything else you don't want). Burn the resulting image with toast,,,