DVD Rips - what is a good program?

Hey everyone :> My Introduction to Cinema class is forcing us to do horrible group projects based on movies and as part of the project you have to show a clip of the film to the class.

I'm doing Powerpoint for my project, and as a result it'd be easier if we were able to put the clip directly into powerpoint, but I need a good program to make a high quality AVI file from a DVD

We're doing A Clockwork Orange, and I have the DVD and everything but I don't know of any good programs to use to rip it to an AVI, or rip a few clips to AVI at least and still have a good quality for powerpoint. Does anyone have any suggestions? A free program would be awesome since I'm a poor college student, but, yeah :( Help please.

And thank you for your time :>

VirtualDubMod can read VOB files. If the DVD is protected, then play it in Windows Media Player, pause it, then go back to VirtualDub and open the video file.

I'm assuming that you know what VOB files are and the basic structure of a DVD. Basically, open the VOB file, you'll have to do a lot of work with interlacing and it isn't something that can be done in an hour or two. It also takes practice. And then you gotta encode the video with another codec.

Go to www.doom9.org and start reading. The sooner the better -- you don't want to have to do this three days before the project is due.

>VirtualDubMod can read VOB files. If the DVD is protected, then play it in Windows Media Player, pause it, then go back to VirtualDub and open the video file.

This is *really* the wrong way to do this. Rip the DVD with DVDDecrypter, index the vobs with dgindex, process (deinterlace, resize, clean) them with avisynth, and convert them with virtualdub (not mod). It may not be as simple as >>2, but it is vastly better. Ironically, I learned this information from the same www.doom9.org.

>>3s way is the most perfect way to do this...its all free too (except for the movie)

Thank you very much :> The doom9.org link is awesome and reading up on the recommendations.
You guys rock ;__;