A friend of mine gave me a messed up dvd backup of a film. There are 2 files in the root that probably prevent the dvd from playing, Desktop DB and Desktop DF. After some research these are OSX ...

I used SmartRipper to rip a home video DVD to my hard drive, and renamed the resulting .vob files to .mpg. This appears to have worked. My Vegas 4.0 editing software wouldn't import vob, but it ...