Disk drive wont spin

Hey all,
I have got a prob.
I have a dvd with 4.6 gigs of avi movies on it. When i try to drag all or any of the files off the dvd(in finder) onto the desktop, the drive spools up like it usually does and the progress meter starts going up. It usually gets quickly to about 50-80 percent and the drive stops spinning and the meter stops. Then I get a messege
"Finder could not complete the operation because some data in "filename" could not be read or written (Error code -36)"
The wierd thing is if I drag any of the files individually , it does the same with all off them. When the drive is spinning it copies no prob but all of the sudden it just stops and so does the copying. Sometimes the drive never spools up and the progress stays at zero followed by the error messege.
Another thing is when I play the movies right off the disc. Same thing. If the drive spools up it will play a good 5 minutes off the movie then the drive stops spinning and movie freezes. And sometimes when I open the movie off the disc the drive never spools up and it plays about 10 seconds of the movie the freezes.
Not sure what is happening here...
Any help would be excellent
Mac Mini 1.42GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.4)

It really sounds like the DVD is damaged in some way.
I do have a suggestion, but I'm not sure it'll work : insert the DVD and let it mount on your Desktop. Then, open Disk Utility (in Applications > Utilities), and select (highlight) the disc in the left panel. In File > New, you should see three options :
Blank Disk Image
Disk Image from Folder
and
Disk Image from your disc. You want to select that option, and then you can choose the name, location, and format for the disk image. I think you can leave "Compressed" and for encryption, "None". Now, click Save.
Once it's done (if it succeeds), you could try to mount that disk image (double-click the .dmg which you will find where you saved the image), and see if you can transfer the files from there.
Please let us know if it works (or doesn't).

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