Cant Read DVD

I hope this is the right forum for this question ?
My Dad made a DVD of a lot of old family 8mm film. Somehow the DVD got scratched and will no longer play on my Mac. However, it will play on the cheap DVD player my kids have in my Truck. A few times the pictures gets screwed up but still plays, I guess thats where the Mac.....says nope. I tried to copy it to my Mac. But I get the message that it cant be read.
Is there any way to tell the Mac to ignore errors and just copy the DVD to my computer ? Or any other ideas. My Dad is no longer here, nor do I have any idea what he did with the original 8mm film. This is sort of a must do.
Thanks
Paul

It's weird how sometimes the cheap DVD players seem less picky about what they play. Go with BDAqua's suggestions first. It may still be possible to salvage or reduce the number of rough spots.
If not, you might try to make a copy of the DVD with Toast. While Toast will not fix the damaged video tracks, it might provide you with something that is playable even with the existing faults.
As a last resort, you can use the truck's DVD player (I assume some sort of aftermarket rig) to feed the video (with existing faults) to a capture device on your mac to re-encode. You can then burn a new DVD with the same faults but no scratches.
Obviously, for such a treasured heirloom, several copies made to high quality media would be appropriate regardless of how you resolve this.
Best of luck. To put your mind at ease, the "last resort" method will work--And considering that the original source is 8mm, I doubt that the quality hit will even be noticeable.
Video capture devices:
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/video+capture
One more thing: Once you have secured everything that you can from this disk, you might then look into various disk scratch repair products to help recover the missing footage. Sometimes these products can help and sometimes they just make things worse. The best bet is to salvage what you can before risking further data loss.
Again, best of luck to you. These types of documents can play an important role in preserving a sense of continuity for both the family and its individual members.

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