How to repair a DVD's structure or just extract single VOB and create new

[rijir2001]

I have a DVD that was made using a standalone DVD recorder. The structure must be corrupt. It will hardly play on a standalone player. And even on my PC it takes 2 minutes to initialize. DVDShrink encounters errors if you try to open the files on it. And Nero has the same problem.

How can I repair the structure?

OR

I am able to extract the part I want using smart ripper. But then how to I author that single VOB file back to a DVD with the correct structure?

[guns1inger]

You try running it through FixVTS, then loading it into Shrink. Otherwise VOB2MPG then re-author with pretty much anything.

[rijir2001]

I'll try FixVTS.

I don't want to re-author the mpeg file since this will result in a "generation" loss. I want to keep the original quality at all costs.

[GTRBudda]

I had a similar problem not long ago. I thought it might have been a CPRM problem but the disk doesn't play right in either of my players, not even the original recorder. None of the ripping tools I tried would do it either. IsoBuster pro (not the free version) was able to get most of it from the ifo, but there was still a small portion it couldn't get. Just a bad -RW disk I guess.

[steveryan]

Re-authoring will not result in quality loss.

[rijir2001]

So VOB2MPEG won't re-encode the clip? I'm assuming then it will just take it out of the VOB "shell"?

[steveryan]

That's correct.