can't see dvd files

[knock knock]

1.-One of my friends lent me a dvd that he made out on a home dvd-recorder(panasonic t3040 or hs2). The movie plays fine on my dvd players sampo611, ps2 ,xbox,but it won't play on my Imac 17".
2.-Another friend passed me a dvd made on dvd2one or dvdxcopy.Tried to copy it but ican't . The disc info shows 4.2 gb but when i open the video _ts folder IT'S EMPTY!
3.-does dvdshrink work on VPC?
I tried using vlc but i can watch the movie but not copy the files
If someone could answer this ill be really grateful
thanks for your help in advance
P.S the movies wherea bit more than 2 hours

[galactica]

have you tried the all famous OSeX extractor?

if that doesnt see anything, then you wont be able to do anything. (im sure it will at least show you something )

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9830

try that program and see what you get

[knock knock]

I tried ,nada.extractor doesn't see anything inside and OSex sez "no disc"

[dcsos]

You need this or freeware similar to it on your IMAC



http://www.softarch.com/us/press/greatvideo15.html

[knock knock]

42 doesnt work on it either. It stays in step 1.

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!
Use Toast .change yor preferences -.Disk Cache to empty HD space and Ram cache to 64mb. Select COPY(even though it looks like an empty disc it will read it ) let Toast finish reading the disc and then insert a blank dvd and BURN BABY BURN!!.

Or if you want the long way .....Start VPC;click on my computer and you'll see the mac HD (leave this window open) .Now open the dvd; select the VIDEO_TS folder and drag it to the "macHD"-choose the folder of preference(machd/user/yourname/desktop).Open Toast ,select DVD name the disc and just drop the video_ts folder and click burn

I tried both methods during the weekend and they work!