Burning a copy of a DVD

Hi there,
I just recieved a DVD movie of my friend that he made, he has PC (don´t know if it matters, it should´nt) and I want to make a copy of that one. It is a VOB file.
The DVD that he send to me works perfect in my DVD player and computer and it plays imidiently.
But when I tried to make a normal copy it does´nt work any more in the DVD player, just in the computer...but it did´nt play directly, I had to doubleclick it first and it only worked in VLC player.
Should´nt be that huge problem to make a copy of a DVD or?
Please let me know

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2059 (English)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2059?viewlocale=sv_SE (Swedish)
Here is an Apple Knowledge Base article that explains how to make a copy of a DVD-R video. The same instructions can be found by using the built-in Mac Help. It will lead you to the Disk Utility program and its Help has the same instructions.
-Doug

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//danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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