Problems with home video vob file

[BeckyW]

I am having trouble with a VOB file playing properly. My daughter and her friends made the home movie as a school project. After much prodding she finally got her friend to burn a copy to DVD for us. The movie is about 11 minutes long. She used a mac. I have PC. Problem is that if I try to copy the big VOB file from the disk to my computer, it gets about 4% in and fails. If I try to play the video from disk I get to the 30 second mark and it freezes. If I take my mouse and move the indicator bar over a few seconds, the computer seems to grind a minute and eventually the movie starts again and plays the other 10 minutes or so without further problem. There are no scratches on the disk at all. It looks perfect. I'd like to be able to move this footage to my PC and store with my other home video. Is there a piece of software that will help me rescue this file?

Thanks

[enim]

My daughter and her friends made the home movie as a school project. After much prodding she finally got her friend to burn a copy to DVD for us.

More information on what is the source and how home brewed DVD made using which software. There are proven masters here, they know more than me and they can help you out if you provide more information like video sample or mediainfo, and details of softwares used.

[BeckyW]

She made the video using a mac and imovie. If I import it into Windows Live Movie maker, it brings up those first 30 seconds and that is all that it seems to see.

I will also add that I've tried the disk on another computer in my home running Windows 8 (I'm running Vista) and the same thing happens.

[Baldrick]

Try copy on another computer/dvd drive.

You can also try copy using a decrypter like dvddecrypter or dvdfab decrypter. They might be able to ignore the bad parts.

Or use a dvd recover software like Isobuster or cdroller.

[manono]

If I import it into Windows Live Movie maker, it brings up those first 30 seconds and that is all that it seems to see.

So iMovie actually accepts it, even if it doesn't see it all? To build on what Baldrick suggested, I'd try and open the VOB(s) in DGIndex and then check if you can see it all. If you can, then save out both the audio and video (File->Save Project and Demux Video). If that works, remux/reauthor using Muxman to get a good DVD out of it.

You might also try getting the VOB(s) out of it using PGCDemux. If that works you can reauthor a DVD.

[enim]

Look here already two masters here to help. Isn't is awesome.
Some masters love some, and they are really awesome. i mean some container attracts them coz they can see through it - naked OOooops! I will close my eyes! I expect few more here, and jag if it could be scripting.
And I AM THE MASTER, Master of Making...., making what?
I mean FuN!

[BeckyW]

I've downloaded DVD Decrypter and ran it. It got only 4% in and died.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8334494@N04/9147500048/

I know the rest of the video exists past 4% since I can play it on real player. I just have to drag the cursor past the bad spot.

[manono]

I know the rest of the video exists past 4% since I can play it on real player. I just have to drag the cursor past the bad spot.

Hehe, but that doesn't make it a compliant video. You didn't mention about the horrible corruption at the 4% mark. You can set DVD Decrypter to ignore the bad spots. It still will take a very long while to put it on the hard drive. I'd still try DGIndex, but you'll get the same corruption at the bad place.

[jagabo]

I've downloaded DVD Decrypter and ran it. It got only 4% in and died.

There's a bad spot on the disc. Set the retry counts to 0 in DVD Decrypter. Tell it to ignore read errors. Then rip again. Let it run overnight.

[TrackingError]

Hm. I'd try making a 1:1 copy with DVD Shrink.

[BeckyW]

It worked!!!! Thank all you you so much!! The last tip from jagabo of setting the retry counts to 0 and ignoring read errors in DVD Decrypter and runing the decrypt again worked like a charm. It ran about an hour and 15 minutes for the almost 11 minutes of video. There were tons of messages in the error log that read "failed to read Sector ..." "uncorrectable error". Once it finished I played the file that it created and it runs perfectly.

[enim]

It is awesome, finally party is over with help of the proven masters,

You can set DVD Decrypter to ignore the bad spots.

Set the retry counts to 0 in DVD Decrypter. Tell it to ignore read errors.

Proven masters rocked the Lightening party (in UK? may be here) with DVD Decrypter.
Everybody left happy, already.