Of course and, as stated in the first post, the only purpose is to watch a movie on the computer screen while I do some work...
Some of these movies are one-offs (the special edition of THX1138 - two CD's, or the aniversary edition of Tron) and I'm not about to share that...

But, it's not because I understand that, that it cannot be repetated enough:

Do no copy illegally, thanks

But...I run into encoded DVD's - so ripping that will be a challenge. And, hey, this is just a "wanna-have" and not something crucial. If it's not done in an easier manner, I'll just watch like everyone else...
Hey, I do that whenever I digi-rent a movie anyway...

Thor

As I am lead to believe it is of dubious legality just to run an unlicensed DVD player on linux, let alone actually play the disk.

...I dont get it, if the DVD (and the movie on it) is personal property, to be ripped to the hard drive for personal use/viewing only, where's the harm? Of course, this throws the thread in a completely different corner but, always a good idea to contemplate that open source is not analogous to illegallity...

Just the dime I want to drop in the chat...

Ok Thor son of Odin if by RIP you mean send it to oblivion have a good smash on it with your hammer!!!

Otherwise have a look at dvdrip !

Regards !

Thanks fellow earthling