Forgive me if this has been posted before. However, I was wondering if any of you guys could direct me to a DVD to computer software (in other words, a software that will let a user rip the DVD to your computer). Hopefully one of which is reliable, safe, and free. A friend of mine has been bugging me lately asking if I knew a program that can accomplish this goal (so that perhaps he could convert it to iPod format), but trying to solve it myself is not a task that I can perform with ease - seeing as though there are tons of software that can do this, and I do not know where to start.
Thanks in advance.

~Weekend Dude~

Try VLC media player. I downloaded it because I tried to watch a DVD that was in my DVD drive, but WMP wouldn't play it. It played it. It can rip DVD's, I just don't know how personally.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Heres a good page I searched and found, seemed relevant/helpful enough.
http://lifehacker.com/397573/master-your-d...-media-with-vlc

This is the guide

http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an-AVI...File-Using-DVDx

Heres the program

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdx/

You probably won't have to download an xvid format