i hijacked another thread, so figured i may aswell start my own.

i downloaded VLC media player and there is no clear way to copy a DVD to my hard drive or change the format to play on aTV.

is there not some kind of straight forward program that would allow me to simply put a DVD in my PC, copy it to my hard drive, then play it via iTunes/aTV?

quite possibly VLC is the best way, but as mentioned i'm not seeing any options to rip a DVD, so any help with direction would be greatly appreciated.

thanks alot.