Best freeware for ripping movies?

Like me, I have a few movies that I really like. I would love to back them up on my computer so if something happens to the DVD itself, I can still watch them. I have heard about this freeware application for Windows and Mac for a long time called Handbrake. I tried it once and I could not get it to rip a DVD. I gave the program another try a couple of days ago. Handbrake did the job very well. Handbrake has many options to change the size of the video and or declare how big the file will be on the computer.

http://handbrake.fr/