DVD Ripping

As per below, going through the palava of trying to get my DVDs onto a drive on the network in my house to act as a media server. I also want to get some Peppa Pig vids onto a laptop so that we can amuse my toddler on the aeroplane on the way to our holiday destination. So essentially get our DVDs into a one-file format that can be played just on a laptop, or via my PS3. I've probably gone around the houses a bit on my choice of method, but this is what I am doing:

1) Slysoft AnyDVD to unprotect the DVD and have the option of jumping to the main feature and cutting out any advertising/marketing junk
2) DVD Shrink to be able to re-author the DVD to just have the features I need (I can get rid of the French subtitles feature if I want, for example)
3) Handbrake to convert the file to .mp4 to have a one file solution.

The process is pretty slow and painful actually. The bottleneck is DVD Shrink, because this is what's actually reading the DVD drive. Although it does what it does in the background, you can't do any of the other things until it's done. I can use Handbrake to go directly from the DVD drive (and Handbrake is very slow), but then I can't use a feature of Handbrake which appears to be quite useful - the queuing feature. Basically if you have a bunch of files on your hard drive (say from DVD Shrink), you can queue these up to be done one after the other while you're not there. DVD Shrink is useful because you can chop out all the stuff you don't need, and shrink the file down a lot. Trouble is, you do have to be there to do the first two steps. Basically, ripping a DVD into an mp4 file based on my method takes about 1.5x as long as the DVD you're ripping. So if I'm ripping Peppa Pig 'Stars' DVD, I can expect this to take about 50 mins overall, I think, but even that seems to depend on what I do. Mostly it's best to leave steps 2 and 3 overnight.