Can't transcode DVDs

Hi all -
This is a fresh install, using self-compiled kernel 2.6.12.
I'm trying to rip a dvd I've ripped and transcoded successfully when I previously had arch installed. Since coming back to arch sometime later, I'm having all sorts of trouble -
Using dvdrip, ripping halts with following errors:
sh: line 1: 9679 Broken pipe dr_exec tccat -t dvd -T 1,-1,1
-i /dev/dvd
9680 | dr_splitpipe -f
/media/video/dlug/tmp/dlug-001-nav.log 1024
/media/video/dlug/vob/001/dlug vob
9681 | tcextract -a 0 -x ac3 -t vob
9682 | tcdecode -x ac3
9683 Segmentation fault | tcscan -x pcm
With the same film, both mencoder and acidrip freeze my system completely and I have to do hard a reboot. Is anyone else having problems here?
Thanks.

Hi thar,
been on a distro-hop, wanted to make sure that arch really is the best distro out there
I still can't get anything out of dvdrip. Tried lots of different settings but I get the same error posted above. Went back to mencoder, as paranoos suggests, I watch cpu usage get to 99.9% then all my RAM gets eaten up then the whole thing freezes. Every single time. Since encoding is the only cpu-intensive thing I do, is it possible I have some flaky hardware?

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