How to Recover a bad DVD made with DVD v7? Streamclip?

I have a several copies of a DVD made from a iMovie(8.04) & i DVD(7.04) that will not play. They either freeze in middle, or at the first menu, or show that they are skipping over damaged sections. I don't have the original iMovie files or video clips. I tried copying tje DVD with Disk Utility to a DVD/CD master. It failed with input output errors. I tried copying with Toast and disk recovery on it copied but copied disk will not mount in player. It was suggested to try Streamclip, I got Streamclip and opened the VOB files fine and they play perfectly, then I tried to export them to Quicktime, DV,MPEG and AVI..so I could bring them back into iMovie and then to iDVD again....no matter what I choose as "export to" Streamclip says it cannot create the file. What am I missing here. Do I need some add on to Streamclip? Is there a better way?

Not 100% certain if anything will help your particular situation. However, it's possible you may also need apple's MPEG2 Playback component (that or an update).
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10201945&#10201945
Another option might be to use DVDXDV (try it for free):
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.products.htm
Your choice.
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