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Ripping on a Mac

Hi guys. I'm new here so I apologize if I posted in the wrong thread or if this has already been asked (seraching for mac rip didn't work since both words were too small haha).

Anyways, I'm trying to rip a DVD of my old high-school's musical (the musical dvd, not some lame High School Muscial pun)

Anyways, I'm on a Mac and just about every tutorial I've found out there for ripping DVDs to XviD involve a PC and I was just wondering if anyone knew of the best too to rip an XviD AVI on the mac? I've heard handbrake might do the trick but as of yet I haven't gotten great xvid quality out of it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I'm more o rless an absolute newb when it comes to XviD encoding... most of my experience is with Apple's Compressor and apple codecs.

I'd keep messing with Handbrake.

Its the easiest and I get great results from it.

Do you have any recomended settings? I know that just about every movie has a different requirement but is there anything that generally will produce good results.

like say settings for an action flick (while this is a live musical since theres lots of static bits and lots of dancing bits I figure an action film would be on par lol)