Now I get down and dirty with DVD’s

Ever since I got my DVD rom drive with DVD’s, I always wanted to watch movies on my computer.

It seems that the only way I can truly see them with my budget of $0 is to actually write a program that can decode a VOB file.

I have discovered that a VOB file is quite similar to an MPEG-2 file. I have some reference to the structure to an MPEG-2 file format, but I cannot understand what GOP (group of pictures) means.

I read elsewhere that MPEG relies on the JPEG standard.

Can someone please point me to complete details on the MPEG-2 format (or better yet, the VOB format) without me paying a cent for it?

I want to make a DVD player in QuickBasic once I figure out the internal format of VOB files.