from what I'm gathering about dvdshrink you Can select your audio tracks and stuff? I want to back up my special edtion movie of Versus which I spent like four months tracking down and I want to use the japanese 5.1 surround sound and the japanese 2.0 stereo sound with english subtitles instead of the english dub and other commentary tracks and the like. Also which version is better? the new dvdshrink beta 5 or dvdshrink 2.3?

most dvd backup programs let you pick out the audio tracks and subtitles that you like (including dvdshrink of course)
dvdshrink3 beta5 is the best so far

is there any way to do episodic dvds with dvdshrink 3 beta 5? That way i can back up my family guy and simpsons dvds?

Most of the transcoders available like DVD Shrink, DVD2One, Instant Copy, etc...will allow you to backup your full disk