Originally Posted by baji

It is easier to just download a torrent of a movie that you want, but, it is also quite a bit less legal. lol. So, for the sake of being above board, let me tell you what to do to rip a copy of a dvd you own using handbrake.

Put the dvd in the drive, open handbrake, click the 'Source' drop down button, select the dvd in the options (it will have a DVD icon next to it)

Handbrake will scan the disc, which will take anywhere from a few moments to a couple of minutes.

Once it has finished scanning, the the process is no different than re-encoding anything else.

As for HD content, like Blurays for example...well, that too is possible if you have the hardware. Specifically, a bluray drive. The process is not nearly as simple, but obviously the picture quality is much much better.