Loading family DVD into iMovie

Ok, I know this has probably been answered 1,000 times here, but I can't quite find what I need.
I am a HS football coach and do the video editing for the team. One of the parents just handed me several DVD's of his video recordings. Is it possible to get the clips/contents of the DVD into iMovie so I can include them in my game cutups? I have never worked with these and have tried to avoid them just for this reason.
When I open the disk icon I see a single folder VIDEO_TS, and several folders within that one.
What do I do?
Casey
IHS Vikings

Well, maybe not that many but enough to make it easy to find what you need.
As long as the material is not copy protected, you can open and convert the TS files with a free application called MPEGSTREAMCLIP. You can find it online. The application comes with a guide that explains how to use it.
Keep in mind that the files on the DVDs are highly compressed. To bring them into iMovie, they will be converted by MPEGSTREAMCLIP, but there will be some loss in quality.
iMovie uses its own .dv format and can handle Quicktime, both of which are available options within MPEGSTREAMCLIP.

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