Other than Handbrake, which won't work for me (see below), can you recommend a video encoder (for Win7; ideally free) that can encode a single, 14GB VOB file to an H.264 .mkv file? For Free?

I don't know how to use IFOedit and I have two videos I want to put on a DVD. So I guess I might just merge them together but I don't know how to do that either. How do I merge two DVD mpeg2 files ...