How to play .vob files on Mac or Convert them?

Hello,
I'm a big Mac convert and I can do 99% of what I need w/o Windows.
However, I have a lot of movies that are on my windows machine which are back-ups and I want to read them or convert them on a Mac so I do not have to painstakenly redo them. They are images (.VOB) files.
Any ideas?
Black Book 2ghz,MBP 2ghz, 24" of Glory iMac 2.16ghz, 12" iBook1.25 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

For the record, VOB files are not images, they are just multiplexed video/audio/subtitle streams. MPlayer and VLC should both have no trouble playing them. If they're in a VIDEO_TS folder, DVD Player will play them (File->Open DVD Media).

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