I only asked you because you said it was trivial, personally I am very grateful to those who have put in the time and effort to give us a choice of converter apps. Far from finding them over complicated, I relish the options they offer.

FWIW I have typed the command you suggest into my Vista console and it doesn’t work.

The best result for me so far is the one I outlined previously, i.e. one stage DVD to mp4 using Handbrake. Any second stage conversion degrades my file.