Just in case it helps someone...

If you happened to have downloaded a raw DVD off the internet, and want to convert it into a nice DivX-style MPEG4 file to it doesn't take up 4.5 Gb, then the following couple of commands do the job nicely..

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Of course, I'll watch the movie off the VOBs first for the quality after all the time that took to d/l!
Whatever happened to the (de)CSS stuff? I've always found mplayer just happily "works" with VOB off DVDs, even though they surely should be encrypted. I know its been trivial to bypass for a long time, so has software just started including decss stuff as a matter of course?