Unable To Read DVD Information

broo0591 · Post by **broo0591** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:02 pm

A friend recently gave me a "home made" dvd of his wedding to copy and edit with Ulead Video Studio (11 Plus). I am unable to read the DVD and get the following error message

"Failed To Read DVD Information
Report ID: 0x8004090(2305)

I'm sure others have experienced this error. Is there a work-around?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:53 pm

How are you trying to "read" the DVD?

Please read http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

broo0591 · Post by **broo0591** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:15 pm

I am trying to "Import from DVD" in Capture mode.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:33 pm

Two possible options are to try to copy the DVD to your hard drive and try Insert DVD/DVD-VR from there. And if that does not work, but the disc is now on your hard drive, then simply change the extension on the .vob files to .mpg.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:34 am

It is possible that you may be a victim of a dll file that has affected some users.
Please view Fix: Import DVD (VOB) Files DMF/VS/MSP

broo0591 · Post by **broo0591** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:43 am

Great advice. I was able to copy two files and change *.vob to *.mpg. One *.vob file is corrupt and I can't do anything with it.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:46 am

broo0591 wrote:..... One *.vob file is corrupt and I can't do anything with it.

There is your problem.

Post by **lancecarr** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:28 am

Given that you have a corrupt vob on the disc you could also try to copy the entire disc contents to the hard drive using DVDFab Decrypter. Just google for it and use the free copy.
That particular program is VERY forgiving of corrupt data on DVDs and will correct anything it can whilst transferring to the hard drive.
After that you will have the same DVD file structure on your hard drive as the DVD and you may be able to import more of the original DVD's contents and not lose the contents of a vob file.

Adrian Perkins · Post by **Adrian Perkins** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:03 pm

Another program that helps with troublesome VOB files is FixVTS.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FixVTS

Some standalone DVD recorders produce discs that cause problems for some copying/reading software - I have such a recorder, and FixVTS allows me to import such DVDs into VideoStudio.