Ripping A Faulty DVD

[barneystorm]

Got a DVD-R here off a friend who wants to make further copies of a home made family film but it seems the DVD had a faulty burn as both DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter report errors at the same position. Playing it back on a standalone, a couple of my players stop , but a couple carry on-the picture freezes for about 10 seconds but then carries on and it's fine after that-so the actual part that is faulty is very small and is only a few seconds into the film, so is there any way I can rip the part of the .vob that is OK then rebuild the DVD (I'm ok with the re-building, it's just ripping the ok part out of the faulty .vob I'm not sure how to do)

[Epicurus8a]

Assuming you've tried all DVD Decrypter options (llike agressive mode), the next thing I'd try is ISOBuster. I've had a couple of discs I've had to play (in a player) while I re-recorded them (in a recorder). Ultimately you might have to try something like this, too.

Good Luck!

[ricky1756]

is it scratched or a bad disc? you can use vob merge to put all the vobs together into a mpeg2 file, cut out the bad part, and reauthor. it's always worked for me on bad discs.

[barneystorm]

Thanks for the replies, folks..

.. the disc is totally clean-it must have been a burn problem.

The disc has 5 vob files, I've already used vobmerge to merge vob2-5, but I can't get the first vob off the disc onto my hard drive to try and merge it.

Ive tried DVD Decrypter, but I can't see 'aggressive Mode' setting. I've also tried ISO Buster, but it gets to the point where the problem is-(about 1% into the vob) and stops.

[Bob W]

Have you tried using windows exployer to copy the bad VOB file to your hard drive?

[barneystorm]

Yep-that was the first thing i tried!!!

[Epicurus8a]

RE: DVD Decrypter

Go to Tools/Settings/General. At the bottom of the window locate the REMOVAL METHOD Pulldown. Then select AGRESSIVE.

[wulf109]

Try ripping the "bad" vob with your DVD burner. There normally locked at 2x and are much more likely to rip a "bad" file than a DVD-ROM which is 16x.
This has worked for me on many problem disks.

[thegeeman]

I agree with all posts on retrying with Decrypter and Isobuster. One suggestion for reference is that when burning a film, i try to stick to 2x (4x as an absolute max) irrelevant of format of disc.
problems occur if burnt too quickly and also there are a few DVD players that cannot read them that well and you get the problems you described;i.e freezing, jerking and quite often pixelation.