DVD made on old imac unreadable on new intel imac

I've seen some discussions about issues like this but
none that have a solution. I had an imac a couple
years ago and transferred all my home movies to dvd
using imovie (4 or 5?) and idvd. They play fine on my
television.
I now have an intel imac and would like to use it to
make ISO files of the dvd's so I can stream them to
my tv using a mediagate server. My understanding is
that I load the dvd, open disk utility and use it to
make the iso file. I have tried six of my dvd's and
every one is rejected after DU tries for a few
minutes, accompanied by an error "Unable to create
XXX.drc input/output error." Some of that wording may
be slightly off, but it's close.
Is there some setting I have failed to properly set?
I can play the dvd's in dvd player so they seem to
still be good. But I can't copy them.
Thanks for your help.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
An ISO file is basically [in my understanding] a diskimage.
[xxx.iso]. Since you created these DVDs yourself, they are not protected, so you don't need to rip them. You can simply open TOAST, take your DVD, copy the 2 folders on the DVD to the desktop, drag the folders [AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS] into TOAST [set to 'data', 'ISO 9660' 'select','new CD'] and then choose 'save as disk-image'. Naming is quite restrictive: 8 uppercase letters and/or numbers only.
This will give you an iso-file; a diskimage of the original DVD.
Hope this is what you were after !

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