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?

Macworld commenter Lisban Osorio has a multimedia problem that faces a few of us. He writes: My copy of the Godfather II comes on two DVD discs. I’d like to play it on my Apple TV as one continues ...