Home DVD movies to MAC

I have many home movies I created on my PC and burned to DVD. I would like to 1) transfer from DVD to my MAC for back-up and re-editting. 2) send to iphone via QT X. I purchased the mpg-2 add on and was able to transfer a movie but there was no sound (multiplexed file). I loved the switch to MAC and all my new home videos are great. The problem is working with the old home movie DVDs that I created with Pinnacle Studio on PC. Anyone know the most painless way to do this?

i use Mac the ripper, or hand brake. (Search on version tracker)
For converting digital video to mp4, for iPhone - i use iSquint.
It can probs be done on OS X's own apps, but it'd probs take twice as long!
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