VOB freezing and copying issues

[SCGH]

Hi

I have a DVD that a baby sonographer gave me. I want to copy the DVD onto my PC to edit it.

The DVD has a folder called Video_TS. Within this folder are the following files
Video_TS.BUP
Video_TS.IFO
Video_TS (VOB File type)
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_1 (VOB File tye)

The last one is the biggest file.

When I tried to copy these files individually to my PC, VTS_01_1 failed.

I downloaded Freemake Video Converter and tried to convert the DVD to .avi and .wmv. However, I received the message "the program failed to open".

So I selected 'Video', and the individual files, and was able to convert it. But it only gets 1 min into the 8 min vid, and then the video freezes.

Please help me. I really want to load this onto my PC for editing, and so that I have a second (non-DVD) copy of this footage.

[manono]

I doubt it's encrypted. It sounds more like the DVD is scratched or the file is somehow corrupted. Can you get another copy?

Also, why does it say VTS_01_1 (VOB File type) rather than VTS_01_1.VOB like normal DVDs. Or do all your DVD VOBs say the same for some reason?

Can you open that VOB in DGIndex and scroll around?

[jagabo]

I doubt it's encrypted. It sounds more like the DVD is scratched or the file is somehow corrupted. Can you get another copy?

Or bad media.

Also, why does it say VTS_01_1 (VOB File type) rather than VTS_01_1.VOB like normal DVDs. Or do all your DVD VOBs say the same for some reason?

Probably because he has "hide extensions for known file types" enabled in Explorer.

I would use one of the rippers that ignores bad blocks and continues ripping. It may take a very long time and the VOB file you get will have a bad section (the part of the disc that can't be read). But you'll probably be able to recover most of the video.

[Bjs]

Common factors

1: Junk media ... unless the sonographer has a huge amount of work they may not know the brand of media or drive being used is problematic, unless their customers report problems.

2: The "hide common known file types" is ACTIVE on YOUR system ... you cannot physically hide an extension in any permanent way ... unless the program used to burn the files to media made an error leaving the extensions out ... rare but dose happen

[SCGH]

Hi all

Sorry for the delay in replying. However, the sonographer was able to send me another DVD (phew), and I have just checked it. It now works perfectly, so it seems it was a corrupted file on the DVD.

Thanks so much for your help. I thought it was my error, so I am please you encouraged me to get another copy

[jman98]

Hi all

Sorry for the delay in replying. However, the sonographer was able to send me another DVD (phew), and I have just checked it. It now works perfectly, so it seems it was a corrupted file on the DVD.

I suspect it was crap media as Bjs and jagabo suggested. 99% of the public sees media as a commodity and thinks that only idiots pay more for "quality" because "they are all the same". I would guess that the sonographer just uses "whatever is on sale" to burn to and you can bet that those are the usual garbage discs for sale all over the world.

However, I do want to point out that the odds of a sonographer knowing anything about how DVD works are pretty close to zero so there's always a chance that the burn was just botched. My step-mother gave me a DVD that she got from her brother (lives in the UK and she's here in the US) and she couldn't play it at all. I took a look. He tried to make it in a DVD recorder and it was clear to me that the recording process was interrupted somehow (power loss? user stopping before completion?) and almost nothing was actually on the disc AND to top it off it was not finalized. I sent her email and explained all this to her and as far as her brother was concerned I was speaking in a language he did not understand. Geez, if people aren't even smart enough to copy a stupid DVD with a recorder you can't be surprised when medical offices botch it too. And I'll spare you my long story about a video a friend gave me to try to salvage that he got from his kid's school. It was in WMV but so messed up that Windows Media Player on my new Win 7 PC refused to even try to play it. I was finally able to convert it but it was really painful.