Yeah, I've heard good things about DVD Shrink. It's one stop shopping- rips, compresses and removes protection. You can also just remove the film if you don't want all the extras that go along with it.

www.dvdshrink.org/

DVD Decrypter is also good. You can rip the movie, and
then use DVD Shrink to compress and burn dual-layer
DVDs to DVD-R media(If you don't have DL burning capability). If you have a single-layer DVD, you can rip the movie with Decrypter as an ISO image, and then use Decrypter to burn that image to DVD-R.

www.dvddecrypter.com/

Smartripper is also another one of the better ones and
pretty easy to use from what I have heard. It's
freeware and it removes Macrovision protection while
also removing Region protection.

www.afterdawn.com/software/...ripper.cfm

Also, this website is loaded with all kinds of helpful information guides regarding all kinds of video editing/dubbing/ripping software:

www.videohelp.com/