VOB to MPG

I know there have been a lot of questions about this, and i have used hundreds of programs. I have used DVD Decrypter to download DVD files into my computer and they are in a Video_ts folder. How do i convert these files to .avi or .mpg so that i can use them with Windows Movie Maker. I have tried so many different programs, but everytime they just convert to new VOB files. I am a newbie to this so if someone could provide me with detailed instructions, that would be great. Thank you

 

AutogordianKnot, or virtualdubmod will give you avi.
ReJig will give you elementary streams, which can then be muxed.
There are many more.
If you use DVD Decrypter in file mode, you should be able to get an mpg from it (I don't know for sure, never used it).

 

THanks for the reply. I downloaded Auto Gordian Knot, but I am totally lost as to how i convert Video_ts to .Avi. Any instructions would be appreciated!!

Thank You

 

Google it. There's a huge tutorial on the doom9 site.

 

Meikos, but what do you want to do, exactly: MPGs or AVIs?
For mpegs we have 2 guides already ready, in http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd2svcd_with_tmpgenc.cfm for MPEG-2 (SVCD)
or
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd2vcd_with_smart_dvd2avi_tmpgenc.cfm for VCD (MPEG-1)
substituting the 'Smartripper' (last realease: 2001) part with 'DVD decrypter' (best riper)...

For making AVIs, take care: avoid trying to compress to AVI a 720x480/576 movie, your result would be too lossy. It's better to compress, for example, an already encoded MPEG (352x240/288 [MPEG-1 for VCD] or 480x480/576 [MPEG-2 for SVCD])...if you want to make a 600-800 MB AVI, it's better to encode a middle-res movie respect than compressing a hi-res one. If you wand to directly compress a VOB (720x480/576) to AVI, capture only a resolution-reduced movie from it (like 600x400)...