XPS 8700, W10 DVD Player

Vic384-It does the same thing with the files I copied to a folder. I'm about to give up...so aggravating this W10. I don't recall this problem with Vista or W7. Why didn't MS just leave the optical drive as it was before? It's causes a lot of problems for me and many others.

@Co9lColt I can't see your picture yet, but VIDEO_TS is usually the name of one of the folders on a video DVD, the other folder is usually AUDIO_TS. Inside the VIDEO_TS folder are the video files usually with a .VOB extension. 

If you can play other video DVDs with VLC player then the problem is likely a problem with the .VOB file on your 3 inch DVD or playing the 3 inch DVD on your DVD drive. Like I mention before you can try copying the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders and their contents on the DVD to a folder on your hard drive and try playing from the hard drive. 

Thanks, I'll look for one of those converters and hope that doesn't cause any problem with audio/video separation. MP4 would be nice indeed. Matter of fact, anything but these VOB files. What's puzzling, they will play nicely on my older Sony or Panasonic DVD player through the TV.

@Co9lColt When you right-click on the file name, a menu should appear with the option to cut or copy. Hitting the keyboard combination 'Ctrl' key and the letter 'C' also copies, then navigate to the folder you want to copy the file to and use the keyboard combination 'Ctrl' key and the letter 'V' to paste the file to that folder. Or, if you don't use the keyboard combinations, you can left-click the file name and drag and drop the file to a folder on the hard drive on the left side of the File Explorer window.

DVDs are encrypted with CSS

So you cant just copy files

You have to rip them to MP4 using a program like hand brake.

https://handbrake.fr/

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.2.0/get-handbrake/download-and-install.html

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/

And No I'm not going to explain the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB7csl-LUuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDmUg8aRnE

Thank you , sir-I'll try that tomorrow. It's all worn me out today. This is not the first time I've tackled this problem. I don't know how one segment of those mini DVDs could be corrupt yet the others not as they're all on the same little disc. With electronics I guess about anything's possible.

@Co9lColt  Look around for a free video file converter and players and see if you can find one that can convert those TS_VOB files to .mp4 etc.

Could those files on the disc that won't play just be damaged or corrupted?

I will say this. For unknown reasons it will play some of these "segments" on the disc...especially the ones on Track or Chapter 2/3 as shown in the picture. The last two marked as time 3:20PM and 4:47PM it will play. Is there a way I can copy one or both of those to my HDD?

When I right click on either I see no way to do that as there's no option to copy.

@Co9lColt Now that I see your picture, it appears you are right-clicking in an application (perhaps VLC player), not in File Explorer. To copy the files you need to be in File Explorer, browse to the DVD drive and the folder (VIDEO_TS) with the video files.

@speedstep @Co9lColt 's 3 inch DVDs are not encrypted, they are not commercial DVDs but videos he made himself that were recorded to DVD.

VLC will also play Mounted ISO files that have CSS removed.

https://handbrake.fr/

HandBrake won’t rip protected DVDs by default anymore.  DVDs purchased from store or recorded on hand cam have CSS encryption

To decrypt DVD with HandBrake, you need to install libdvdcss.

HandBrake developer removed libdvdcss from which means it is not able to decrypt protected DVDs on its own anymore.

So what is libdvdcss? It is a free and open source software library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the CSS (a kind of DVD copy protection). In other words, it is lib (library) + dvd (DVD) + css (Content Scrambling System). Generally speaking, if you want to rip CSS-protected DVDs via HandBrake, libdvdcss is necessary.

https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

32 bit

http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.11/win32/libdvdcss-2.dll

64bit

http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.11/win64/libdvdcss-2.dll

you need to copy libdvdcss-2.dll to libdvdcss.dll

Then drag the .dll files into your HandBrake program folder. If you did not change the folder during the HandBrake installation, it should be C:\Program Files\HandBrake

Now restart HandBrake and you are able to encode CSS-encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss HandBrake.

If this is all too much you should try Wonderfox

https://videoconverter.wondershare.net/ad/uniconverter-all-in-one-dvd-converter.html