I used the handbreak software to rip one of my dvds so i could format it for iphone use it worked as far as pulling all the content off and it is surprisingly fast only about 25 mins to rip an entire movie but it (iphone news blog) was super pixelated turns out i need a 2nd piece of software called dvd 43 or somthing like that to use with handbreak it pre rips the content for me then hand break supposedly does the rest i havent yet tried it but i will as soon as i get home and hopefully that works out.