How do I open and save a DVD as movie file?

I have a DVD with video content that I want to eventually get "in" to iMovie for editing.
I can open and play with iDVD.
I need to save it as a movie file so that I can hopefully import it to iPhoto - and eventually open and edit with iMovie.
How do I save it as a movie file? When I tried QuickTime it wasn't able to open it either.
Thanks,
Kathy

Did you load the MPEG2 Playback Component?
If you open your DVD in the Finder, you should find a folder called Video_TS. In this folder, you should see several files with the extension .VOB. Drag one of these files into MPEG Streamclip and you should be able to play it. If you get that far, we'll keep going.
AIC is Apple Intermediate Codec. It is a high quality codec good for editing. DV is the codec used by MiniDV camcorders. You can pick these in MPEG Streamclip by selecting FILE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME/AIC or FILE/EXPORT TO DV
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