DVD Encription and watching

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 13:04 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> I want to be able to watch dvds. What is the best player to use to
> view dvds please?

To watch encrypted commercial movie DVDs, read
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#head-38508785e53c611dde1859232189b2e823135eb9
> 
> I also want to make backup copies of the dvds and also store the films
> on hard drive. How is it best to do this please? 

k9copy was already recommended, but the recommendation was not complete
because k9copy can only output directly to iso files or burn DVDs. To
back up to HD there is also Thoggen (very simple) and Acidrip (gies more
options)