Ripping DVDs to AVI / MKV... one click? easiest solution?

[ChrisF]

I want to stick a few of my DVDs onto the network, so I can watch them a bit easier from my XBMC set up.

Whats the easiest way of getting them into AVI, or MKV (preferably), format? I don't want to have to faff around ripping, demuxing, encoding etc... Just want some one, or two, click solution.

Appreciate I could rip them to ISO format, but for some reason XBMC seems to take forever to start playback of ISO files (for me anyway). Plus, one of the DVDs I wanted to rip was the series of Band of Brothers, so I wanted to split the episodes out individually.

There any good, easy, one/two click, solutions out there please?

Not fussed about keeping menus btw... In fact, I want to ditch them if at all possible, and just keep the main feature(s).

[smouty]

Auto Gordian Knot for .avi
I think makeMKV will convert a DVD iso to mkv

[ChrisF]

makeMKV is pretty damn good isn't it! Thank you for that. That's exactly what I was after

[NekoFever]

Handbrake will also do pretty much exactly what you want. If you're converting to a format that supports it, it'll even bring the chapter markers and soft subtitles from the DVD. There's lots of control if you want it, but equally you can click a preset that fits your criteria and let it go.

[smouty]

I use handbrake for iPhone compatible video conversion which it excels at.
I've just converted the Millenium trilogy and added english subs as the DVDs only have scandinavian ones
Could only see the option to import .srt subs but it worked a treat.

[charlesr]

Latest handbrake doesn't do avi or handle m2ts properly. 0.9.3 does though (filehippo). It's moving towards an mp4/mkv container in h.264 or mp4 codec, with divx no longer supported because it's not as good for streaming.