What's the deal?

Does MAX MEDIA PRO work with VISTA? It won't work on XP home on my laptop either. I want to backup some of my personal DVDs into MPEG4 format. Anything better? Also, I recently made a backup file of my Family Guy Frickin Sweet Collection on UMD using UMD DUMPER, converted the files to ISO using UMDGen, put the ISO into the MS/ ISO/VIDEO folder and use the umd mount when a UMD is in the driver. I can get it to run, but it keeps skipping and freezing on me. I have researched what to do with similar problems for others. I've adjusted my speed and tried every driver option. I've googled all I could and checked alot of forums. It doesn't work for fat running 3.90m33-3 or slim running 3.90m33-2. What's the deal? Is there no good Iso video support the 3.90m33 firmware? Did I just get a bad UMD rip? Am I missing a plugin, patch or VSH file? Please help. If there's a way to dump directly to MPEG4, or a good UMD_DATA.BIN to MPEG4 converter (freeware)? Please let me know of any good programs.