I second Mark's mention of MakeMKV. It should support BluRay as well plenty of people in the Boxee forum swear by it. Then you can set handbrake or other encoder to process a queue of files over night. Or many nights...

But seriously, if you own the disc, save yourself the trouble and download a copy someone else has already ripped and re-encoded for you. It's much much faster than ripping your original disc yourself, and for you, the consumer of the video, should be just as legal. But INAL.

I think the industry is missing an important device right now that could fill the place of a computer without the complexity for unloading personal media such as photos, video and audio. Such a device would be easily and ideally interoperable with modern mobile computing devices such as phones and tablets.

Apple already has device that contains all the right base hardware in the Time Capsule. They just need move a USB port to the front and add a card reader or two. Maybe a "GO" button.