Find Photos on DVD and Xmedia Deinterlacing

[b-dubs]

I'm going to have my daughter help me re-encode DVDs to MP4 so we can put them in a cloud folder and share them with distant relatives. Both of us are new and learning, I'm just a few steps ahead of her. I'm trying to find the best method and then we will go over it together.

1. Easy button: Is there software that will scan the DVD for photos. I noticed at least one of my DVDs has a photos folder. I could have her look manually but I thought it would be easier for her to open the disk in software that would check all of the folders for photos.

2. I'm leaning towards using Xmedia only because it's easier not to miss a title. However, I have had better results with deinterlacing in Handbreak. Probably user error with Xmedia. I'm going to be testing various settings today. Any suggestions to try? In Handbrake I have been using Yadif, Bob and increasing the framerate to 59.94. I notice the 59.94 in Xmedia dropdown has a comma and reads 59,94???

[b-dubs]

Update, I'm going to use Handbrake. I can't tell a difference after Handbrake deinterlaced the video.

MP4 Deinterlaced VLC deinterlacing OFF

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Origional (VOB) Mpeg - 2 VLC deinterlacing ON

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Still looking for something to examine the disk for photos. If not we will look manually.

[sum_guy]

Personally, I would get the DVD converted to mp4 first, then I would open it in Virtualdub2 and you can scan every single frame and export photos of anything that is in the video.

[DB83]

Typically, there will be others who contribute to this thread. But....

A dvd would not, typically, contain a photos folder. If id does then it could not be considered a dvd.


Any dvd that contains folders more than video_ts and audio_ts can be considered as multi-??? (sorry but I can not think of the right term right now ) But such a dvd will not display these 'photos' as the disk is playing.


If a dvd -as in a storage medium - contains pictures you do not need to look beyond the tools that Windows gives you. You simply load the disk and let Windows explorer search for content that is, typically, *.jpg or *.png.


A normal video_ts folder will not contain any pictures. If, by such cont, you see still images it means that the the original images was created as a slide-show.


I, , have no opinion about the requirement to de-interlace


But any modern system should de-interlace in real time..


Pure video (not video created as a side-show of picture content) will already be 'de-interlaced' as one views. Even interlaced content should display correctly.


By all means use these 'one-click' solutions. Just do not moan when they do not work as they expected.


For more critical analysis one would require real examples.

[b-dubs]

Thanks. I'm not looking to make photos from the video. I just want to check the DVD to see if someone else did. If so, copy them to a specific folder on my computer. Windows can do this when you put in a memory stick, you can set it up to auto-transfer photos to your library. I don't want them in my library but in a specific folder. I'll probably just look through the DVD folders but if a program exists it would make it easier not to miss any photos.

[b-dubs]

DB83, I just saw your reply. Thanks. I think it is a special DVD from a company that made photos from the video and played the photos back to music in one of the DVD tracks. It has all of the typical DVD folders and one extra folder for photos. I'm going to press on because I think this would be rare. I just didn't want to miss copying a photo folder if one existed. I wasn't expecting photos so I almost missed them.