Burned DVD, now want it back!

I burned several DVDs though iDVD and made several masters and deleted the original movie to clear some space. Now some of those masters aren't playing fluidly on some, if not all, DVD players. I would like to bring it back onto my desktop to save in Quicktime or something comparable just so I have a compressed electronic version of this DVD in case the DVD itself is the problem (low quality brand possibly). Any suggestions on how to do this? I tried inserting the DVD but didn't see an option to "share" or "export" from the actual DVD. Is this possible?

Mike's suggestion matches your question. But, I'm wondering if a disc image of a bad disc would repeat the burn errors -- you could try it and see if there's a difference. From a technical perspective, I'd be interested in opinions whether taking the video back to Quicktime could rescue video from a bad disc (although one would have to accept some small quality degredation from uncompressing and recompressing the video).
txmacgirl - you'll see the process explained in the forums for using MPEG Streamclip along with Apple's MPEG2 plugin to go through the latter process.
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