Topic: how do I rip DVD to hardrive?

First, the prerequisite copyright disclaimer: I own a few excercise DVDs and there's really no room in my living room to do these excercizes, yet that's where the dvd player is. There is however plenty of room in front of the computer to get nutty so I wanna rip these to my hardrive if possible. I own the DVDs so it's not an issue.

I'm sure I could Google up somee DVD ripping wares but I was wondering if anyone knew about them firsthand and if they could be played from your hardive with the menu system and navigations and episodes etc in tact? these videos have excersize progressions and they're all sectioned off and after each section is over, it returns you to the menu page.

Worst case I could rip the little 'episodes' and link em myself I suppose. Just feeling around, I've been out of the copyright infringement game way too long I suppose

Jason

ooohhhh you bes be gettin yer webcam back up if you get dis to work.

I've got me webcam doing duty as a surveilance unit for a bit =\

Jason