Does anybody know of a completely free non-shareware freeware DVD ripper? Thanks!
For Mac you can get DVDBackup or Mactheripper both are free and shareware and easily avaialbe on the internet.
There is DVD Decrypter if you’re trying to rip an encrypted DVD
DVD Decrypter – gone forever
DVD Decrypter v3.5.4.0 download
Along with DVD Shrink if you need to shrink the DVD files to fit on a regular 4.7GB DVD
DVD Shrink v3.2.0.15 download
DVD ripping and shrinking guide
If you’re looking to rip a nonencrypted DVD then you can use tools like IsoBuster
IsoBuster is available in a free version and a pay version. The free version has fewer features but I believe that it can still get DVD files off of a nonencrypted DVD.
John I love you. You are now my 2nd father.
You can thank me after you’ve been arrested and thrown in prison for making a personal backup copy of a DVD that you had legally acquired and after Gilby’s server has been confiscated for having a link to a download location for DVD Decrypter. 
AfterDawn, Doom9, DVDR-Digest, Digital-Digest, and VideoHelp are some places that have downloads, guides, and other info on DVD copying and loads of other technical things about video and audio.
There is also DVDFab Decrypter which is new since DVD Decrypter bit the dust.
No, I didn’t need to dycrypt anything, just rip a personal dvd that my dad made from VOB.
If it’s a regular personal DVD and you just want to make a direct copy (rather than ripping the video off the DVD to edit) you can do a regular DVD to DVD copy with something like Nero or copy the DVD to an image file on the hard drive and then burn that image file to another DVD. Since the DVD is not encrypted and since it is already sized to fit on a 4.7GB disk there is nothing fancy or tricky about copying it.
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and john how and why do you know all this?
Tyler what is with you and the two pictures at one changing thing
It’s all on the Internet for anyone to find. 
I had to learn about this stuff when I started doing some basic video editing. Then you just keep reading about it at sites like I mentioned in my previous post. I had to learn a little bit about DVD ripping and authoring when I got a DVR that records to both a HD and to a DVD-R. I needed to learn how to get the files off of the DVDs that it burns and how to do some basic DVD authoring.