Extract wedding pictures from a DVD

[Magnum]

My daughter has been wanting to make some pictures from a DVD of her wedding.

The photographer "took off" and Cherise has no pictures of her wedding.

The DVD has a montage of still shots on it.

Looking for recommendations on how to extract some of those pictures.

My computer does not have a DVD burner, just a CD burner.

I think my son-in-law has a DVD burner.

[dedndave]

how much data is on the DVD ? (Mb)
the CD burner - does it read DVD's ?
i can't imagine more than 700 Mb of pictures, unless your daughter is Cherise Theron, or something  :P
maybe, it's a CD ???

[dedndave]

at any rate, if you want to get them onto a hard drive, make an ISO, then extract the files from the ISO with 7-zip

[Magnum]

My drive doesn't read DVD's.

I may be able to buy a DVD burner.

[dedndave]

strange that they would put it on a DVD, rather than CD
unless it is in AVI format or something - even then....

[Magnum]

Since there is also video on it, it may fit on a CD.

[dedndave]

well - you may be able to play it in a regular DVD player
but, that doesn't help you get the files off

[bieber]

Get a PC with a DVD player, play the DVD in VLC, take screenshots of the photos you want (Video->Snapshot).  The resolution will be bad, but it's the best you'll get.

[dedndave]

nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
you can extract the images at the native size for best results

[bieber]

nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
you can extract the images at the native size for best results

I think you're a little confused about the format.  We're not talking about a DVD with image files on them, we're talking about a DVD with an NTSC (or PAL, depending on OP's locality) format video of the photos, probably fading in and out to music, moving around, panning, or whatever it's hip to do in photo montages nowadays.  In all likelihood, there's no trace at all of the original image files on the disk, just that video, so the best you can hope to get out of it is 720x480px, usually less depending on aspect ratio, and you may have to deal with interlacing.

[dedndave]

it's probably an AVI
send it to me - i can extract it frame by frame at the native size

[Magnum]

I have to make a copy first.

If the computer at the Senior Center has a DVD player/recorder, I will make an iso image
on the hard drive and see what's on it and go from there.

The DVD material came from one of the attendees who taped the rehearsal and the wedding.

[dedndave]

well - they probably used a digital cam-corder to make the video(s)
that means the file is likely MPEG or some flavour of AVI (DivX, Xvid)
i can work with either
the pictures will probably all fit on one CD
if the video files are large, send me a PM and i will give you the password for my file-share
you can use 7-zip to archive it into 200 Mb part files and upload it
from there, you can go back home and download it
or - if you like, i can extract sections of the video into frames