How to burn only part of a dvd?

I have a dvd my father sent me with footage from vhs recordings from about 20 years ago. I want to copy for a friend a couple of segments that are on the dvd. Unfortunately I have 2 problems, first being the dvd will play in my dvd player (hooked up to tv), but when I put dvd in imac I can't get it to load~only see first "page" of dvd with menu on it, I click and it won't load.
Second problem, assuming I can figure out first problem, I don't know how to exclude probably 95% of the dvd to burn a copy for a friend. Any help from a frazzled newbie?

Your first problem:
You need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle in order that you edit the contents. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
Your second problem
What version of iMac do you have? Does it actually have a Superdrive that can read DVDs, or just a Combi drive which can only read CDs?

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