I want to convert the contents of a DVD into a computer-playable file (AVI, MOV, MPEG, whatever). Not for piracy purposes, but for personal use. In fact, the DVD is a video of one of my performances at a convention.

In the past I've messed with some of the software out there which does this, but it's always very complicated, requring things such as processing the audio separately with third party encoders, and requiring me to know which audio tracks are which (I always ended up extracting the rear surround channels instead of the proper left/right stereo audio).

Are there any programs out there which are self-contained and work more simply?