A friend of mine sent me a dvd-rw disk, finalized I believe. I went to copy it into Decrypter, but it apparently only wants to copy in ISO mode, not really what I was looking for. Is this the case if the disk isn't finalized too? (so I can tell him for next time)

I'd like to just get vob or mpg files from this. Any advice for best method to do so?

If you want to use DVD Decrypter to extract files from a disc, follow this guide:

http://www.digitalfaq.com/edit/recor...corderedit.htm

I'll have to ask him if he did this in VR mode instead of video mode, perhaps that's why I cannot use this method.

Your files will be VRO files if he did. In that case, just copy the VRO file to your hard drive.

Yup, that's what they were - but niether dvd drive on my desktop could read it and show the files. Luckily my laptop did; and then I just had to let it chug over my wireless network.