IDVD and Unix Executable files

Hello
I have iDVD 4.0.1 and am trying to open and play a DVD movie that a friend has just sent me of a recent trip we took together. He recorded this DVD on his own Sony digital video camera, so there are obviously no copyright or other associated problems.
The one folder on the DVD is this:
DVD_RTAV
This folder contains these three files:
VR_MANGR.BUP
VR-MANGR.IFO
VR-MOVIE.VRO
The .BUP and .IFO files are tiny, only 66K each, while the .VRO file is big ie 3.69Gb. THe last one is clearly the movie itself.
Any attempt to open the .VRO file produces the message that "there is no default application specified to open document VR_MOVIE.VRO".
iDVD will not open it.
The Get Info instruction tells me that the 3 files are all Unix Executable files.
Is this just a question of changing the suffix on each file to something else? If not, is there a way of converting these files into a format so that this DVD can be played on my (PPC) G5 iMac?
Many thanks.

Nicholas Law wrote:
.. I have downloaded Mpeg Streamclip1.9.2 and this plays the .VRO movie file perfectly. I'm not sure why I need mpeg-2 playback. ..
obviously, you have it ..
.vro is mp2 encoded (to my knowledge), therefor, SC needs that plug-in..
if it works, don't fix it

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