Just got a new computer for home, a long overdue upgrade to my aging Pentium 4 machine..
Finally I have a DVD burner/drive outside of my company owned laptop -
So here's the deal - I'm keeping my old machine and using it as a multimedia device for my upstairs/bedroom system...I've got about 34 GB of music on it (all legit, I swear)....I'd like to copy ever freakin' DVD I own onto it too, so I can hook it up to my bedroom system...Is there a way to rip my DVD's to WMV or divx or something?

I've never copied a DVD before, so what's involved in it? I put the disc in last night (Spiderman) and none of the stock loaded programs seemed to be able to rip the DVD to the hard drive. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but for CD's I just put them in, open Realplayer or Windows Media, and rip away with great satisfaction...what do I have to do for DVDs? Is there a cool program out there (free of course) that does this? Or do I have to crack every freakin' DVD or something? Maybe I just need to find the right codec or something? Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing

Help me out guys!