I'm setting up a video jukebox, of sorts, for a somewhat clueless friend. It's based on a VIA EDEN mini-itx platform -- only 1GHz CPU, and not the greatest DIVX performance. It has hardware MPEG2 acceleration, so that's what I'm focusing on. He wants a setup where his (personally owned) DVDs can be ripped to a hard drive to play randomly, full screen, at system startup. I figure an easy way to do this is to run VLC from a batch file at startup. What ripping app can take care of protected discs, yet output only the main movie to a single .mpg (or, I suppose, .vob since VLC can handle it). The key is it has to be as easy as possible -- he really is quite clueless. Two steps is too much (otherwise, DVDFab->DVDDecrypter might work). I'm trying DVDFab Platinum, but it seems that it can only output to divx. Spending up to ~$50 is no big deal. Any suggestions? Thanks!