Empty vob files?

[Ndre]

Hello all,
I'm not quite sure in which section to post this, so I'll first try in here. Please redirect me to the correct section if inappropriate.

I recently got a DVD which won't play anywhere, at all. There are 5 VOB files with 175mb each, but when I try to open them with VLC (or any other player for that matter) nothing happens; it looks like the pc is loading the video but apparently it's not. I tried demuxing them with vobedit, but all the files I get are empty (ie, filesize = 0kb). Does anyone have an idea what is going on and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Baldrick]

Please give us more information!

Does it work on a standalone player?
Are there just 5 vob files? No ifo,bup files?
How was it made? like from a dvd recorder and maybe not finalized? Then it might be possible to recover with nerovision, isobuster or cdroller.

[Ndre]

No, the screen stays black and you can't do anything (skip chapter, fast forward...).
In addition to the vobs there are also 2 BUP and 2 IFO files. I'm not sure how it was made, but since they're homevideos I guess they just burned some videofiles with a program like Nero.