Trying to rip and edit a show

[GSK]

Hey all. I've been trying to rip some cartoons from a set of commercial DVDs and burn them to a smaller number of discs (most of them only use HALF of a DVD-5, I want them on some WHOLE DVD-9s).

The hitch is I'm also trying to edit them, 1) To arrange the episodes by year, rather than the commercial discs, and 2) to use an alternate language track I transfered from VHS. I've been using Avidemux to take specific segments from the ripped VOBs, but I'm having trouble finding a format that will allow them to be played in other programs, esp. both Moviemaker and Winamp (the latter so I can write the audio as a WAV file to edit it independently of the picture). Is there any way I can make this easier on myself?

[hech54]

The MPEG-PS output will be the closest to what you are imputing(MPEG2 from DVD).

[GSK]

Yeah, that's what I've been using, and while Winamp will show the first frame or so, it won't play the audio or the actual video. With Movie Maker, the problem is that it doesn't recognize the extension.

I THINK the problem is that I haven't been selecting the right options from the drop-down menus on the left. I've been choosing MPEG-PS from the format menu, put I never touch the "Video" and "Audio" menus above it. Should I be selecting something from one of those?