Burning a DVD copy...

I need some clarification about burning a DVD copy of a disk I own.
I used "Jack-the-Ripper" on the disk first. Then, because of a post I saw somewhere, I put a blank DVD in my burner and ran "Hand Brake" which took over an hour grinding away and then reported the job was finished. However, nothing was written to my DVD.
So I loaded "Toast 8" and it appears to be burning the disk fine.
Before running Toast, I was able to play the movie from the HD video_ts file. This ability may be all I need since the whole purpose of this is to be able to view movies while on a trip.
Can someone explain what the purpose of Hand Brake is as it appears that I don't need to run it to burn a disk with Toast.

I use handbrake to create mp4 files for viewing on my iPod... I'm pretty sure it's just a format converter as opposed to a burning software.
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