Help needed trying to figure out old DVD slideshow files for conversion

[jfspartners]

I made many DVD picture slideshows with music back in the 2006 time frame. I have the DVD file copies on a hard drive, but can't seem to open or remember what old program I used to make them (Sonic, Pinnacle, Roxio, iMovie/photos. or ?) I am on a PC with win10 and I can only view the source directory with VLC. Below is what the DVD file structure looks like (No AUDIO_TS OR VIDEO_TS). Any help wound be much appreciated!


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[johns0]

Moved the thread to conversion,isn't latest video news and please don't post duplicated threads,one is enough.

[jagabo]

Turn off Explorer's "Hide extensions for known file types" option so you can see the actual file extensions. My guess is that "Megs Graduation" is a .VOB file and the folder called Sources contains the original source files (AVI?) that were used to make it. So that isn't a disc meant to be played in a DVD player, but an archive of the project. I don't recognize what software that may have been. Maybe if you show the content of the Sources folder (with extensions) it will be clearer to somebody.

[johns0]

I looked up jacket_p and it's a directory that holds MPEG-2 encoded pictures of the cover art (usually) for the disc. It can be used by some players as background for splash screens, screen saver, etc... not that many support it, though.This is taken from a doom 9 forum post.

[aedipuss]

really doubtful that dvd disc would have auto-played on any dvd machine. maybe it opened as a list of files. upload the "dvd file" off the disc and let's see what it contains. most likely a vob, or maybe an mpg2. it could have been made with the old windows program windows movie maker/dvd maker.

[jfspartners]

Thanks for you thoughts. Sorry about the double post...my bad. Here is what' in the directory. I do think you are correct that is was some slideshow program like movie maker....

The .DVD file and one from the Jacket_P dir

[jfspartners]

Here are files from the Sources dir's

[jfspartners]

The .dvd file wouldn't send

This is a pic files in the slideshow dir of Sources .... it wouldn't send either 100-0019_IMG-fade-110372.mpeg - Invalid File

[jfspartners]

Maybe its time to forget all these DVD's I made

[jagabo]

The files that wouldn't upload can be zipped up into an archive and the archive uploaded.

J00___5L.MP2 has a menu:


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[aedipuss]

something is missing. it would be many megabytes long not the ones posted that are under 1MB

[Brainiac]

Sometimes MediaInfo's "writing application" section tells me what software was used to create video files.

[jagabo]

Videomp24x3NTSC720x480.mpg is an mpeg elementary stream but only contains a single black frame.

General
Complete name                            : Videomp24x3NTSC720x480.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 5.25 KiB
Duration                                 : 33 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 304 kb/s
FileExtension_Invalid                    : mpgv mpv mp1v m1v mp2v m2v

Video
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings                          : CustomMatrix
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Duration                                 : 33 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Maximum bit rate                         : 9 000 kb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00:00
Color primaries                          : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.601
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.601

[ProWo]

Type into a Windows command line window:

dir X:\*.* /s >C:\list.txt

(where X ist the drive letter with your DVD in).
Then post the list.txt file (you'll find it in the root directory from drive C) here.