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.

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.