How to RIP DVD’s using ElementryOS.  [NOTE: It may be illegal to rip movie dvds where you live, I am doing this for disks that were created personally - check your local laws before ripping media!) I wanted to RIP a family members DVD they created with one of those direct to DVD Video cameras.  It was a vacation video from years back, they wanted to preserve it and watch it on a tablet.   Many Linux operating systems do not enable DVD ripping by default, but it is easy to get it configured so you can. First lets install a few extra programs to make your life easier: 1) Install VLC - The VLV media player is one of the best media players supporting most of your video and audio formats. Grab it from the Software Center or run the following command from the terminal.  sudo apt-get install vlc 2) Install Multimedia codecs - Extra codecs allow for decoding and playback of additional multimedia file formats that are otherwise protected by patent laws in some countries.  run the following command from the terminal. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras libav-tools 3) Support for playing encrypted dvds - run the following command from the terminals.  sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh 4) install HandBrake - HandBrake will convert DVD video to a smaller file that can be used to play on a verity of devices (see photo, right side of program window).  Install it from the Software Center by searching for handbrake or from the terminal  sudo apt-get install handbrake 5) You should now be able to easily rip a DVD disk to a computer video file format using handbrake.
