Issues playing/ripping DVD on iMac OS: Yosemite 10.10.4

So, I have a kids educational DVD I want to rip to have on my phone for commute time.  No problem in a DVD player.

On my Mac, DVD Player has it blotchy and large amount of artifacts.  I tried to use Handbrake to rip it, same issue - bad audio and huge video artifacts.  I tried to be clever and say "oh, it must be timing with DVD hardware, lets create a disk image with Disk Utility, mount it, and let Handbrake do the rip with the mounted drive instead" Nope, still has video artifacts and bad audio.

I searched here, nothing about artifacts, just DVD ripping tips.  Anyone else experienced this and figured something out?
You said that you tried to create an image but did you use DiskUtility?

Try to create new image of your DVD using DiskUtility. Save it to *.cdr file and mount &amp; play or burn already created image to see the difference.