Nearly dead senior project DVD...how can I save it?

How can I save my old high school project DVD to my hard drive? I have a senior project from back in the day that I'd love to keep but the disc is on its last legs. Can I somehow get it from the disc to my computer? I don't want to lose this video, I think I have the last copy. If it breaks, I'm going to lose the best part of those years. There's no copyright problems or anything, we just improve like kids for 20 minutes. I just don't know what to do to make sure we can make fun of each other forever.

If the DVD is not too badly damaged, you should be able to find a folder called Video TS on there and copy it to your computer. DVD Player will play the Video TS file as if it was the original DVD.

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