the imtoo ripper mentioned above will fit your needs to a tee if its a general and non sophisticated approach that you require: DVD Audio Ripper Brief Description DVD Audio Ripper is a DVD audio ripping tool easy to use with high ripping speed. It can extract your favorite DVD's audio track to mp3 and wav file. DVD Audio Ripper provides you with excellent sound quality and smaller file size just in a few clicks. Fomats Supported Ripping DVD to mp3; Ripping DVD to wav; More Features Automatically check your CPU type DVD Audio Ripper can check your CPU type automatically, that ensure you can rip your DVDs with the best ripping speed. Support preview You can turn on or turn off preview while rippng DVDs. To maximize the ripping speed you may turn off preview. Support ID3 tag You can edit ID3 tag before ripping. Support batch conversion Select all tiltes you want to rip and DVD Audio Ripper will automatically rip and encode them one by one. Splitting file by time, size or chapter You can split the output files by time or size. You can customize the time or size value. The default split mode is splitting by chapter.
this only applies if you are thinking of converting movies and such. unfortunately you can't get away with turning, say a data or game dvd into a cd
