Help ripping DVD created from GoVideo

[stryker412]

I had some VHS home movies copied to a DVD, but the GoVideo has some weird DVD structure that nothing can read. I can play the DVD fine from Windows Media Player, but so far DVD Shrink cannot read it. I want to rip clips from it to a digital format.

[hech54]

Just drag the VIDEO_TS folder to your computer and work from there. Also try VOB2MPEG.
DVDShrink only handled single title DVDs from recorders...and even that was not a 100% guarantee.

[stryker412]

I wish I could drag the vobs over but whatever file structure GoVideo put it in, even Windows can't read it. It shows no files on the disc in explorer.

[hech54]

You did finalize the disc.....right?

[stryker412]

Yes it was finalized, I was able to use FairUse Wizard to do what I needed.

[Regor21]

I have a Liteon 5115 and I use ripit4me to rip the video of the DVD+rw disks I use. I have converted over 35 video tapes (mostly non-copyright B-moves) to DVD via this process:

Record at 2 hr speed on DVD+RW's with the Liteon
Rip the movie only to HD using Ripit4me (DVDcrypter and DVDStrink), Run FixVTS on the .vob's
Convert .vob's to .mpg's using VOB2MPG
Use DVDStyler to create a menu and save a .iso
Burn .iso using IMGBurn.

This works very well with single layer disks. For Dual-Layer disks I had to add an extra step:

Make the Menu and dvd using DVDStyler, save as .iso.
Open .iso in DVDStrink and backup as ts folders
Using IMGBurn to set proper layer break; burn.