Don’t you hate having to carry around your cds to watch a movie on them? Well, if you have hard drive space to waste, and some free time, this may just be the solution!

If you wan’t to rip your movies off a cd or dvd you bought, you can use two tool’s. Both of these are free. One is called HandBrake, and the other is called MacTheRipper. Handbrake recently also got the ffmpeg plugin, allowing it to convert movies to for example psp format.
With HandBrake, just insert a dvd, then open HandBrake, and select the dvd as a source. Then it is probably a good idea to tell it where to save, the default is your desktop. Then click start, and it’ll start and tell you an approximate time till completion.
For MacTheRipper just insert your dvd and open MacTheRipper. Also give this a save location and click Go!
That’s it, it’s quite simple to rip a movie of a dvd. Now you can watch it but you don’t have to carry the disc around with you. This is also handy as a backup for the movie, if you are scared of losing the disc, or it getting scratched.