How to download dvd to my hard drive to make video

I am doing a demo reel and want to download DVDs to my computer.  How do I do that?

Copy the DVD to your computer's hard drive.  Note that DVDs have special structuring and you'lll have to have software to handle mpeg-2 encoding.
If they are commercial DVDs simple copying won't work if they are copy protected.

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