extract video from DVD

[Horst Eyermann]

Hello,
I wondered if anyone on this list would be able to help me.

Videolan appears to be slow (famedrops on Celron 500) compared to xine. However
xine is not able to play css encrypted DVD's, where as vlc does without
problems. 

So far I was not able to use libcss sucessfully, so I wondered if it is
possible to use vlc in order to decrypt the disk, store the contence on disk
and play it from there, or convert to another format (svcd, ...)

Thanks, horst