DVD shows size 135GB for VIDEO_TS folder

[gthoman]

Hello...

Need some help backing up a dvd. I have tried Anydvd with clonedvd, dvddecryptor, dvdfab5...nothing seems to work...If I insert the dvd and open explorer, right click it says the dvd is 2.96 GB, then if I expand it and right click on the VIDEO_TS folder, it says its 135 gb!! If I open the folder I see 98 vob files, along with the IFO and BUP files....Anyone had this problem and/or know how I can back this up??

Thanks....

[Baldrick]

What happens when you use latest dvdfab decrypter and rip/copy it to your hdd?

[gthoman]

With 5.2.3 it seems to copy everything and actually shows completed, but I get an error message and need to cancel out of the program. Tried to use 1click to rip a dvd....but it didn't work...Just downloaded the latest version of dvdfab decryptor and that comes up with a screen to send a report when it reads the dvd drive....doesn't even give me the chance to rip it to the hard drive.....Thanks for any help....

[jman98]

Sounds like a new type of copy protection. I'm guessing that this is something that came out very recently such as within the past 2-3 weeks. You're going to have to be patient and wait for AnyDVD and DVDFab to figure out what to do with it.

[Dv8ted2]

Use the latest anydvd and use dvdshrink together. Select analyze and it will correct the filesize problem.

[dialysis1a]

Using DVDFab, try changing your pathplayer setting.

[guns1inger]

What is the DVD in question ?

[gthoman]

Its a cheer video, tried with dvd shrink and tried to open the disc and it said it encountered an error and couldn't continue....Since dvdfab came up with a problem report, I sent them the log, hopefully they can figure it out....

Thanks........

[jman98]

Its a cheer video,

Whatever that means. Expect no further help based on an answer like that.

[gthoman]

I'm sorry...cheer=cheerleading..and its not a production dvd, its from a real competition...

[gthoman]

I mean its not a commercial dvd, not for sale to the general public....It was created from a competition..

[guns1inger]

In that case you should be able to simply drag and drop in Windows Explorer. It sounds like it is either corrupt, or very badly authored.

[jman98]

I mean its not a commercial dvd, not for sale to the general public....It was created from a competition..

Thank you. In that case ignore all the advice about AnyDVD, DVDFab, etc. As guns1inger says your DVD is either corrupt or very badly authored. This is NOT a copy protection issue. Any decryption program, even the old ones like DVD Decrypter, would work on it if it wasn't damaged or badly authored.

[Cornucopia]

Sounds like complications from a badly-made multi-session disc. I'd use ISOBuster and run it through multiiple players/burners to get a complete IBQ file and then extract the sections, demux, then concatenate (merge/assemble edit) the sections into 1 and then author as a straight, normal DVD-Video.

I'll bet all the other recipients of this disc are $H!TTING their pants, too.

Scott