HOW TO TELL IF A DVD IS CESS ENCODED? HELP?

[NFL]

I have read on this site and others that most DVD'S are obviously Encoded with a 32 bit algorithm, etc. However, I did read that some DVD's may not be encoded for one reason or another, like if a movie was a flop or certain cartoon DVd's, etc. Is there a way of telling whether or not a DVD is definitely encoded? Because if it isn't, I could probably just convert the files to a smaller format such as MPEG-2 and burn them without all of the other steps, right? If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks

[crahak]

Well, just don't worry about CSS, since DVD Rippers take care of it for you... MPEG2 isn't a "smaller format", for DVD are MPEG2. I guess you have to start reading some newbie guides there...