Handbrake
Stick the disc in the computer, let handbrake find the longest thing on it, which will be the film, and then copy it to HD in whatever format you prefer.e
(ubergeekian, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 13:10, 3 replies)

Fuck I hate it when there's a better windows prog. than linux.
dvddecrypter and then dvdshrink to fit it nicely on a 4.7gb disc.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 10 Oct 2012, 13:14, closed)

Do you know anything on Linux that copes with CopyProtect
That's the one with a cp in a triangle on the DVD. Apparently it puts in all sorts of silly spikes to the encrypted video so nothing except a domestic player can cope with it. Which pisses me off royally, because wanting to watch a DVD on a computer is hardly unusual these days. At least they could warn you up front - I've returned several DVDs to Amazon as faulty because they wouldn't play on a computer. Worst of all, that included the Camberwick Green / trumpton / Chigley boxed set.
(ubergeekian, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 13:27, closed)

XBMC also has an option to try to skip straight to the menu:
System - Settings - Video - DVDs - Attempt to skip introduction before DVD menu.
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 14:15, closed)

Thanks, useful app
But why should I have to jump through hoops like this just to play content that I've bought? It's times like that that I have no sympathy at all for studios and their whining about piracy destroying the industry.

See also DVD region control.
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Wed 10 Oct 2012, 14:25, closed)