How Can I View DVD Files?

My guitar instructor shoots a short video (usually 5min or less) at the end of every lesson to help me review what we learned. While these DVDs play just fine on my iMac, I'd like to copy them sometimes over to my iPad so I can view them when I'm travelling. I can handle copying them over to my iPad, but have run into a major stumbling block:
When I open the double click the DVD on my desktop, it opens a Finder window. (Good so far!). But, the Finder window is empty (not so good!). It shows zero items in the status bar. Obviously, there are files there, as the DVD plays just fine...I'm just not able to view them.
Any idea what I need to do in order to view the contents of the disk in order to convert the video over to my iPad?
I'm attaching a couple of files so you can see what I'm seeing:
The above Finder window is what I see after double clicking the DVD on my desktop.
When I Get Info about the DVD, I see the below information:
Any idea what's going on, and what I need to do?

Barny,
Thanks...I must be getting old! I'd tried a couple of DVD ripping software apps I had laying around, and neither worked. Thinking there must be something else I need to do, I posted this question.
After reading your answer, I went back and looked (closer!) at my applications, and realized I'd forgotten all about RipIt. I launched Ripit, and it was able to rip the DVD (and compress it for playback on my iPad) with no problem.
It's still disconcerting that I can't view any files on the DVD in the Finder, but it is what it is, I guess.
Thanks again for jogging my memory!

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