Dual Layer

I have been struggling to convert a friend's European DVD to NTSC. I've done this before using MPEG Streamclip, but never with such large files. What I see inside the TS folder is 34 _VOB files. The feature movie is on 6 files, named 01_1 through 01_6. Each of first 5 files is a bit over 1.0 GB and the 6th is about 800 MB. The remaining 28 files are menus, titles, trailers, etc. 1.01 begins with the 8th chapter out of a total 14. If I select any one of the other 5 VOB files and attempt to open it, it opens at exactly the same place - the beginning of chapter 8. I've tried both opening directly from the disc and from extracted files without success.
I realize this isn't a Streamclip forum, but is there something specific to dual layer DVD's that I need to understand to be able to do this conversion project?

It's possible that the reason I haven't had any response to this is that my post really wasn't as coherent as it might have been.
Let me try this instead: If you had a dual layer PAL dvd that you wanted to convert to NTSC, and you did not want to sacrifice any quality in the process, how would you go about doing this?

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