When Handbrake Can't Rip that DVD (revised)

Everybody swears by HandBrake as the free, open source tool for ripping DVDs. But every time I’ve used it, it hasn’t been able to rip movies. The trick, it seems, is to also install DVD43, which runs in the background waiting for you to stick in a DVD, at which point it strips off the copy protection. Voilà, Beetlejuice to Amelia’s iPod.

Update: But wait, Flushed Away continues to resist, even in the face of the Handbrake/DVD43 combination. Handbrake kept freezing trying to read the disc. So in this case, I used VLC Media Player instead, following these instructions: Rip a DVD to iTunes using VLC. Worked great, but note that in the case of Flushed Away the movie was on track 34, so step 4 of those instructions required some patience.