Making copy of a DVD that has no VIDEO_TS folder

A friend of mine made me a DVD on a home DVD video recorder. The DVD plays fine. However, when I mount it and take a look inside, there is no VIDEO_TS folder. There is not anything at all! I want to extract part of the DVD but don't know where to begin without a VIDEO_TS folder to view the VOB files. None of my usual backup or VOB extraction apps seem to work. ANy suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mitch

If it is a video DVD then those files MUST be there!
You need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. 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.

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