QuickTime Pro, DVD & Apple TV format

With QT Pro you can export for Apple TV. I want to do this with some home videos on DVD. But I don't see a way to get the video from the DVD into QT. Am I missing something obvious here? Export seems sort of worthless if you cannot import.

user1724 wrote:
Except the latest release of handbrake for Leopard makes OS X crash and get the screen of death (the one that says you must hard power off your system . . .). At least it did mine. Dumped that in a hurry.
I am sure I can try and find other software, but that does not answer the question.
There is no way to do this with the Apple software? That would be sad, all this hype about iLife multimedia and selling QT Pro as having Apple TV export capabilities.
works fine for me on leopard 10.5.2. i use it almost exclusively.
i don't think apple have every advertised that their software would let you rip from a DVD.

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