cavelamb himself wrote:

But how to load them is the question...

"play" them on?
I can do this already - but the time factor is a bit
much at 1:1.

But I'm hoping to find some kind of special software to read
them on at much greater speed.

Anybody have a handy clue?

You have to rip DVD (google "dvd riping") using any of tons of
programs available. BUT to rip you have to "crack" DVD encoding,
and this would constitue 'piracy' - especially if you intent to
see movies aboard (there is no piracy without some kind of
vessel - just by definition of this word).