[MPlayer-users] Re: Making and playing DVD ISO or IMG files

[adland]

> What is the best way to rip DVD movies to ISO or IMG files and then play
> them with mplayer. 

unsure best way but here is one way

unencrypted discs - 
get dump of entire disc
dd if=/dev/dvd of=img.iso

mplayer -dvd-device=img.iso dvd://1

or you can always just capture the audio/video streams

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.avi dvd://1
mplayer file.avi

good luck