DVD to AVI or MPG?

I have an extensive collection of DVD's. Mostly Classic & latest TV
shows. I've bought them all leagally, but I have a problem. I travel
extensively, and have an Archos media player that I use to watch the
shows while I'm traveling.

Does anyone know of a program which I can use to convert a protected
DVD to .avi or .mpg? My player just plays these two formats, and with
the protection issue, I can't convert them. I have classics that I
haven't even opened yet, because of the conversion issue.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:59:52 -0000, Jim Davis <sky.dancer1@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I have an extensive collection of DVD's. Mostly Classic & latest TV
>shows. I've bought them all leagally, but I have a problem. I travel
>extensively, and have an Archos media player that I use to watch the
>shows while I'm traveling.
>
>Does anyone know of a program which I can use to convert a protected
>DVD to .avi or .mpg? My player just plays these two formats, and with
>the protection issue, I can't convert them. I have classics that I
>haven't even opened yet, because of the conversion issue.

A guide is located here http://www.videohelp.com/dvdbackup#6;33