Rip DVDs to DivX and Xvid Formats

Lifehacker tells us about another freeware application [AutoGK] that rips DVDs to hard drive-friendly DivX and Xvid formats for quick, easy, and high-quality backups. It does so by acting as an automating front-end to several other free ripping and encoding tools, which it automatically installs on your system. We've never featured AutoGK, but a lot of readers swear by it.