I only rip rare movies from dvds. It's not worth the time and effort to rip dvds with it is easy to get 1080p copies of the same movies.
An example of a DVD I riped is Enchanted Adventure.
Disable video transcoding for the account your client connects with. Then check the log to see why it needs to transcod it the video fails. Could be the bitrate limit. I'm not having issues and using the same client.
Yep just can't stop once you start, but find it dad you get an end game while the fruits are still moving. I think I did ok as a first time.