Ok, this might help some of you people out there who can't get that stupid Sony thing called image maker.
I ran into the problem that my wedding dinner footage was recorded on a piece of CR_P called a Sony DCR-DVD101e. It was my wife’s friend’s unit.
I managed to make a copy of the DVD-RW disk but almost nothing could play it or read it.
Of course, it was so important to me, that I had to find a solution.
I managed to find a way to extract all the data off that DVD-RW. Here is how I did it:
http://www.anikionline.com/FAQs/video_FAQs/S03-nonUDF/S03-non_UDF.htm
I hope this helps some of you.