Extracting MPEGs from defective DVD's

[TPFKAS]

Hi there,
I have a lot of own produced DVD's that have the same problem: the file VTS_01_1.VOB is defective. On a DVD player the movie hangs on a certain position. If I try to copy the file on my PC I get a read error on that position.
I tried every DVD recovery software programs that I could find, but non of them will get past the error.
Each DVD contains about 6-7 15 minutes edited videos. Fortunately I have archived the edited videos on tape (I am very happy that I made the decsion to also use miniDV tape as back-up!) so I could re-author all DVD's. However, I want to save time not having to trnafer all the movies back to PC and encode them again, but would prefer to extract the useable movies as MPEG from the DVD without re-encoding.
I tried Vobrator: but that crashes on my system (I seem not to be the only one having this)
I tried Rejig: it can only extract one MPEG-2 for each VOB and most VOB's contain more movies. Rejoinging the MPEGs using MPEG2VCR deos not give good results because there is always an audio gap.

So: can anybody recommend a tool that can extract MPEG2 from VOB's using the title structure as defined on the DVD?
TIA

[Baldrick]

Try dvdfab decrypter as it seems to work on some defective dvds, see https://forum.videohelp.com/topic337460.html?highlight= .

Or CD Roller or Isobuster and try also on another dvd drive.

[TPFKAS]

CD Roller and Isobuster were two of the DVD recovery programs that I tried, but no joy.
I tested the DVD's on evry drive that I have around here. Same issue on all of them.

I just tried dvdfab decrypter, but also no luck. I don't think any option that requires reading the defective area is going to work for these DVD's, but there must be a way to extract the MPEG titles that are OK on the DVD.

[TPFKAS]

I just found a way that works very nice. I still had an old version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory/Disc Creator.
It has a feature called "Edit DVD". When you start that option it will start to extract the titles as separate MPEGs from the DVD. If the VOB contains an unrecoverable error it will just end the video on that position and continue with the next VOB. Run the program, start the edit disk option and when the DVD is captured go to the scratch disk folder and copy the mpegs somewehere else (if you close the Ulead program it will also automatically delete the mpegs).