Ripping Homemade DVD+Rs

I've got a business converting people's home videos to DVD, and I recently moved out to college for the schoolyear. To keep my business going, I set up a system where someone puts the home videos on DVD+Rs at home and mails them to me, then I rip them, organize the footage, make menus, etc. Problem is, I can't seem to rip DVD+Rs. My program goes up to 100%, then quits, leaving an unusable file.
Does anyone know how to rip a DVD+R, or what program works with them?

I would love to see an answer to this myself! That is exactly what I'm looking for right now, as I just transferred all of my home movies to DVD+R - and when I put in the DVD, DVD player opens. So I can play them, and I can edit within the DVD as video clips ONLY, but it won't let me rip it and save to my computer which is MOST frustrating! Help?

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