Copying old homemade DVDs to cloud or hard drive

Put the disk in the optical drive and launch Disk Utility. In DU select the disk in the sidebar and under the File menu select New Imag ➙ New Image from "XXXX" where XXXX is the disk you want to copy.

This will create a disk image of the video DVD that you can play on your computer or burn another disc with Disk Utility (before Catalain) or the Finder (with Catalina).

You could try Handbrake to copy the video files from the DVD.

You won't get the menu that you would see from the DVD but you should still get the chapters.

Whether Handbrake can copy the files from the DVD disc any better than what you have tried before remains to be seen.

Looks as though your DVD discs have deteriorated over time.

Handbrake is free and is used successfully by many who visit these forums.Not much to loose.

https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Look for Archive,old releases

Try 0.9.9 for Mac, down the list a bit.

If you create a disk image on your hard drive can you double click on it to open it and then play it with DVD Player?

If you can then you can burn that disk image to disc with Disk Utility and get a playable video DVD.

1 - put a blank DVD disk in the optical drive.

2 - double click on the disk image to open it.

3 - Control (right) - click on the open disk image and select Burn Disk Image

"xxxx" to Disc"

4 - burn at the slowest speed possible to provide the best quality burn.

No. Just this:

If you have a cleaning disc run it and then try again to create a disk image of the disk.