My girlfriend bought me the Jools Holland 10th Anniversary DVD for christmas and it's rarely been out of the player since. My question is, is there an easy way to rip the soundtrack so I can put it on my empegs? I can reconfigure the optical out on the DVD player to output PCM instead of 5.1 and then I could connect the computer to that and use Total Recorder. But is there a better, nicer way to it?

I had a brief dalliance with try to convert DVDs to VCDs a couple of years ago and had to download what seemed like a mass of little programs to individual things. Is there now a one-size-fits-all approach now? What software would I need, bearing in mind I only want the audio?