Windows sees DVD with 0 bytes

I've come across a real stumper. I hope this is the appropriate forum. Been doing a classic transfer of analog Hi8 tapes to disk using the Philips DVDR 3400. Aside from the marginal reputation and usability of the burner I've had success with about 90 burns until this one. Posterior burns also were mostly successful. The unique problem is that in this case after burning and finalizing disc, the computer cannot open the vob files because all four of them show 0 bytes according to Windows. Or rather under My Computer explorer at the G:\DVD VR level the drive is inidicated as full with 4.30 gb used and 0 gb available. But once I enter the disk folders, clicking on the video_ts folder shows it being nearly empty (there are 520 ko used in extraneous files like titling and indexing) but the five vobs are listed as 0 byters. I might add there is also a video_rm folder which is at 0 as well. Odd, because in other DVDs that folder contains files that run up to about 1 mb. Strangely, I can play back the video with Nero Showtime, but Media Player Classic (my default player) tells me it can't find the file. It opens the Philips created menu starts up its play mode, quickly spits out 'stopped' and then reacts with the missing file message. I may add that this DVD also plays normally on my standalone DVD player and of course it plays normally on the Philips machine that created it. The only possible thing I can think that might be doing something is that the very first file in the vob structure is very short (just under one minute). Even if perhaps the 3400 inadequately finalized the disk (not sure), might there be a work around to at least copy those VOB files onto the computer so that I can edit/reauthor the DVD. I'm at wits end. Thanks anyone for help on this.

Seems the Joliet file system information is wrong, but the UDF file system is probably good. This is why a standalone player can play the DVD without problem. IMO, the best thing to do is to rip the files to HDD with a good ripper (DVD Decrypter or if DVD Decrypter fails, try DVDFab Decrypter) and then burn the DVD files again with ImgBurn. is also a good tool to recover the files in such cases, but it is not free.

Roiz, thanks for answer. I managed to get DvD Decrypter to 'transfer' vobs 1,2,3 and 5 to a separate partition. vob 4 somehow didn't take. Any ideas? Now the file instead of being 0 bytes full is 3.3 gb. An improvement, but where did that last gigabyte disappear to? I'll keep trying different options.

Hi! As previously suggested, try using ISOBuster...