Converting animation/cartoon dvd to quicktime

I am trying to edit clips from commercial animation/cartoon DVDs that I own. I first rip the DVD using either DVD backup or mactheripper. When I play the resulting vob files in VLC, they play fine. When I convert the vob file to a quicktime file by either openshiiva, Diva, or drop2DV I run into problems when I encounter parts of the movies that contain text of some form (i.e. a sign or credits). I believe this is due to the multiple language capabilities of the DVD. The video will start to toggle/loop between the english version and another language version. It results in viewing 0.5 sec with english text, then the same 0.5 sec but now with no text or alternative language text, a new 0.5 sec in english, then the new 0.5 sec in alternate language, etc, etc until the text parts are gone. I have also tried using mpegstream clip to merge the vobs and only include one language, and that has not corrected the problem. I have tried a variety of settings with the various programs and not had any luck getting around this issue. I know I could try to edit the non-english part out using quicktime, but that would take much time and is extremely tedious. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? Thank you for your help.

Colin,
Thank you for your help. I believe in order to export from mpeg streamclip directly to a DV file, you need the apple mpeg2 codec. I was originally going to buy the codec and just use quicktime for editing until I saw that the codec was only good for viewing and not editing. I suppose that is for copyright infringement reasons, but it really annoyed me, and since I was going to have to use freeware/shareware to do my editing I didn't buy it.
I wanted to clarify that the problem I am experiencing is not due to subtitles. It is due to text being a part of the animation and I think the animators creating alternate animations with spanish or french, etc in them instead of english. Within the same video, it converts fine in parts without text, but in parts with text (credits for example) it is a mess.

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