Saving from DVD to my hard drive?

A friend sent me a DVD of her kids being interviewed on the local news channel. I'd like to save the clip to my hard drive. I've looked at both iMovie and iDVD but neither of them seems to be appropriate for my situation. All suggestions gratefully accepted

Ok, does it play using the DVD player application? If so, then you have video that is in the format that DVD players understand called MPEG-2. Look at the contents of the DVD using finder. Do you see VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders? If so, simply copy those 2 folders somewhere to your hard drive in a new folder. Then you can use the DVD player application to play the video by opening the folder that the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder are in.

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Moreover, you could try Handbrake.
Handbrake is a software that converts DVD to any format you specify, and it does rely on the popular ffmpeg Unix program. (In fact, I bet most conversion software do rely on ffmpeg...).
I garantee Handbrake is not another of those programs, commonly called thing like DVD2iPod (I don't mean to harm this software if it does really exist) or DVDRIPMAGIX, or well... you know.
So, in Handbrake, there's a list of presets from which you can choose to convert the video to. You should perhaps leave it to Normal (which will encode it to a .mp4 movie, thus rendering you with a far lesser file than 25GB).
Of course, the 25GB you were prompted is an uncompressed file, like DV format is. It is used for editing from uncompressed source, but you are coming from a DVD, which is in the base, not an uncompressed source as far as I know. Thus explaining why the movie on the DVD is not 25GB.
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