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Have you tried Fair Use Wizard? It is pretty butt simple, and they have a free version that rips DVD to DivX so you can try it out. According to WineHQ it works on Linux with Wine as well. The full version will let you rip to Zune, iPod, hell pretty much anything. Butt simple.

If you are strictly wanting to just copy DVD to DVD and want to stick with free you can use the combo of Ripit4me which needs DVD Decrypter and DVD shrink installed. it then walks you step by step as it rips the flick and runs it through DVD shrink. But for butt simple ease of use I would just pay for Fair Use Wizard. The full version does it all and is easy peasy.

You have to buy the $29.99 version to get the features you mentioned, going to portable players etc. They say the full version works on Wine as well.

What it sounds like he wants is Fair Use Wizrd. if he buys the full version it rips to iPod, cell phones, etc otherwise it rips to DivX.

Does it run in Wine? Hell if I know, you Linux guys can answer that. but it sounds like he wants a butt simple way to rip to a single video file in the format of his choice. Fair Use Wizard does EXACTLY that. But if you are ripping DVDs and want something butt simple, spend the money as Fair Use Wizard is worth it. DVDFab and the other can be complex or not convert to the format you need. As you can see here Fair Use Wizard converts to pretty much anything and it has the simplest layout I have ever seen. It is what I recommend to my customers when they ask about converting DVDs. So try it, they have a light version for free that converts DVD to DivX that will let you see if it is right for you. But from the sounds of it this is EXACTLY the tool you are looking for.

What it sounds like he wants is Fair Use Wizrd. if he buys the full version it rips to iPod, cell phones, etc otherwise it rips to DivX.

Does it run in Wine? Hell if I know, you Linux guys can answer that. but it sounds like he wants a butt simple way to rip to a single video file in the format of his choice. Fair Use Wizard does EXACTLY that. But if you are ripping DVDs and want something butt simple, spend the money as Fair Use Wizard is worth it. DVDFab and the other can be complex or not convert to the format you need. As you can see here Fair Use Wizard converts to pretty much anything and it has the simplest layout I have ever seen. It is what I recommend to my customers when they ask about converting DVDs. So try it, they have a light version for free that converts DVD to DivX that will let you see if it is right for you. But from the sounds of it this is EXACTLY the tool you are looking for.

Fairuse Wizard. I gave acidrip a serious try and always had issues. Mostly the stupid subtitles were always wrong. Fairuse wizard always works for me and gives you "click and rip" or you can manually edit any codec parameter. Oh yea, and it lets you rip in any codec on your windows box, Xvid, Divx, whatever. I never had a problem with it. I really like being able to queue several DVDs at once then going to bed which made my initial archiving much much faster. I currently run this under XP Pro vmware on Ubuntu 8.10.

If your looking for simplicity FairUse Wizard (www.fairusewizard.com) is pretty good.
It's been a while since I used it but I remember it being easy and quick with good output.

Fair Use wizard http://www.fairusewizard.com/ makes some money and that is completely OSS. You can find guys that have recompiled the OSS release but it's always behind the main release and has no support.

I buy it on a regular basis, and recommend it to clients and friends.

What about one step DVD ripping? [no, I don't have any tie to the software manafacturer mentioned above, I just think it rules]