Someone give me a 101 on how to grab music and video from DVD and save it as a stand-alone file. For example if I wanted to grab the shuttle launch sequence from Armageddon, how do I go about that? Or if I wanted to rip the audio of a Clint Eastwood quote and save to a .wav file. How do I do that?

There was a really good site all about that, and I'm racking my mind trying to remember the name..

ah, www.doom9.net .. try looking there!

Gordian Knot was pretty ok last time I tried it. I'm assuming you want to recode it to an .avi, not just copy out a part in mpeg2 format?

Right now I just want to grab miscellaneous video and sound clips for use on web pages, programs, etc. So .avi would probably be a good format.

*gasps*

You can't put copyrighted material on the Internet!!

http://69.57.150.41/~www2poi/Netnuke/howtorip.html

Not sure if thats what you were looking for.

To combine iago's and my advice:

Guide to using Gordian Knot available from doom9

I'll try those suggestions sometime soon. Thanks everyone.

Grok, I'm not sure exactly if what I use would work for you, so ask me about it next time you see me. Firsthand is always better, imo. :P

Here is a very active forum devoted to all things media:
http://forums.afterdawn.com