Writing DVD content to thumbdrive or SDHC card?

I would like to place DVD content on a thumbdrive or SDHC card for viewing via WD Media Player Live or similar device. These devices can be of different size than typical DVD discs, and they are written differently. When I try to write a iDVD as a disc image, to copy onto a SDHC, I get an error because of project size even though it would fit on a SDHC card. Then if I copied the disc image to the card, I'm not sure that I would get something that would act like the DVD.
I don't really understand DVD formats and processing versus HD formats and processing in a media player. Apparently media players can download movies, store on a HD, and play for viewing on a TV. And DVD players can "download" movies from a DVD disc, and play for viewing on a TV. Perhaps I don't need to use a DVD format, but then I would seem to loose the menus and such.
Perhaps someone can help me understand the problem more fully or provide a solution. Thanks.
Derek

You may wish direct your disc image inquiry to WDigital - the description below implies it can use the VOB files from a DVD, but perhaps it cannot look inside a disc image to find those files.
"The Western Digital WD TV Live is a media player that supports AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS and WMV9 video format..."
(from: http://www.testfreaks.com/media-centers/western-digital-tv-live-hd-media-player/)
You can also do some testing, eg, open the disc image and try copying just a VOB file to your thumbdrive, and see if that works. It looks like you can also just go directly from iMovie to a format (like H.264) that TV Live understands.
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