A tv station gave my client the clip which was on the local news in the following form: VIDEO_TS.BUP, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.VOB and, VTS_01_0.BUP, VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_1.VOB. I have a button on the page ready to link to...what? Should I use VIDEO or VTS? Should the button link to a folder containing all or to one of the components only? The clips are DVD movies...can everyone see them if I do manage to get them linked and properly uploaded?

Those files are DVD files & will need to be converted to either mpeg,avi or mp4.
best to use a programme like power DVD or win avi for decent results.
You will need to make the resulting file size small enough for streaming & would recomend no larger than 50MB
It can be quite a long prosess converting depending on the file size your starting with, A complete DVD for example of 4.3GB would take 5-6hours.

Hope this is of use to you.

Good luck