DVD plays in standalone but not PC

[netmask]

Not sure which area to post this - kindly move if necessary.

A good friend of mine died last week and his sister sent me a DVD produced by her for his 60th birthday. I was going to extract some stills from it to make a silent photo montage.

I have tried DVD Shrink, Decrypter, ISOBuster et all to no avail. The structure is all there, bup, ifo and vob files and plays ok in my Pioneer player.

I have tried several PC's and whilst I can access and copy the files - drag and drop no PV player will open it - WMP, VLC etc. Womble rejects it as does Vegas etc etc....

MediaInfo reports nothing for the vob files and inaccurate info for the IFO files regarding time.

I would prefer not to capture it via my mpeg analog device.

Any clues where to start - this one has really stumped me.

Below is the MediaInfo of one of IFO files

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Netmask\Desktop\MARK_S_BDAY_21_10_06\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
Format : DVD Video
Format profile : Program
File size : 60.0 KiB
Duration : 400ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 229 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Duration : 400ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Compression mode : Lossy

Audio
ID : 128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 400ms
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy

Menu
Duration : 400ms
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
List (Audio) : 0

[IanB]

What happens if you feed the raw .vob files to a player or something like DGDecode?

What happens if you slice off the front of a .vob and feed the remainder to something in error recovery mode?

[netmask]

Whilst I could drag and drop the audio_ts and video_ts folder complete with files to the desktop or anywhere else, I could not load either as DVD or the individual vob files into any program. I will try a MAC next week but I think I am going to playback and capture with my dvico card. Will try DG. BTW how do I cut a bit off at the head?

[netmask]

Trying to load a vob file into DG I get a "No video header sequence found" error message. Yet it plays OK in the Yamaha.

[r0lZ]

Looks like a protected DVD. Strange for a home-made DVD, but not impossible.
Have you tried to rip it to hard disc with a good DVD decrypter (instead of just copying the files)?

[netmask]

Well it's been a highly emotional time for me and I feel a bit of a goose. I tried every decrypting program including DVDFab etc, etc I realise I didn't try DVDDecrypter after all and voila it's done. The disc wasn't protected but maybe it had macrovision? Both my late friend and his sister worked for a leading TV station in BA and she had a full crew of professionals to film his 60th surprise birthday party complete with string quartet and a couple of opera singers. Thanks very much and sorry for the wild goose chase.. BTW where is the log file located for DVDDecrypter?

EDIT: Found it.

I 17:44:20 DVD Decrypter Version 3.5.4.0 started!
I 17:44:20 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)
I 17:44:20 Initialising SPTI...
I 17:44:20 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...
I 17:44:20 Found 1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD-RAM/±RW!
I 17:45:34 Operation Started!
I 17:45:34 Source Device: [2:0:0] ATAPI iHBS212 2 5L08 (D:) (ATA)
I 17:45:34 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: TTH02)
I 17:45:34 Source Media Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
I 17:45:34 Source Media Copyright Protection System Type: None
I 17:45:34 Source Media Implementation Identifier: *Sony DVD Architec
I 17:45:34 Destination Folder: Q:\MARK_S_BDAY_21_10_06\VIDEO_TS\
I 17:45:34 File Splitting: 1 GB
I 17:45:34 Detect Mastering Errors: No
I 17:45:34 Remove Macrovision Protection: Yes
I 17:45:34 Stream Processing: No
I 17:45:34 Decryption Key: N/A
I 17:45:34 Extracting Sectors...
I 17:50:40 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:06
I 17:50:40 Average Read Rate: 14,437 KB/s (10.4x) - Maximum Read Rate: 21,379 KB/s (15.4x)

[r0lZ]

I don't remember where the log file is saved, but you can save it yourself from the menu of the log window. When you do that, it should show you a File Save dialog, with the default directory pre-selected, and you should see the previous log file.