Copying clips from personal DVDs

Greetings,
I have a MacBook Pro and am using iDVD 6, or iMovie HD 6.03.
A friend made a couple DVDs of some footage of local mountain scenery. He would like me to splice the two together and burn them to one DVD, with some still photos as an interlude between the video clips.
The clips on one DVD are quicktime files, and I can import those. But, the other DVD has files that end in .BUP and some other strange suffixes.
Do I need some sort of DVD copying software? Is it even possible to do what I'm trying? Do I need to make a video of the DVDs playing on my television to a DV recorder, then import them?
Any advise?
Thanks!
Mark in Boone

my preferred tool is the combo of Apple mpeg2 plugin (29$) + Streamclip (free)
.. buy&install the component, then launch Streamclip... it allows to select scenes (=setting in/out points) from a DVD an convert'em into dv-streams..which can be edited in iMovie...

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