Newbie help: video conversion and DVD backups

[Philippe Landau]

bored2k wrote:
> squareyes i suggest u mak on of those free websites pointing to what
> help u are needing at the moment, so its EZ-ier to reply/help u
> 
> for example , i can help on video avi to dvd to whatever on debian
> based distro :smile:
that's great, bored2k.
what do you recommend to make a backup from DVD layer 9 to simple DVD,
eliminating some menus, bonuses and language tracks,
and what would you use to make one from a DVD to mpeg4/divx ?

kind regards     philippe