How do I view a DVD jacket image on my Mac?

[Albe Sure]

Hey-

I'm like SURE I remember viewing a DVD jacket image previously on my Mac, however, I totally forget how I did it. They're considered iTunes docs by default for some reason, and I wasn't able to get them to load in iTunes (gave it a try)...Adobe Photoshop...Graphic Converter...and even tried TFDVD Edit 2 w/o success. Could some kind soul please remind how to view these bad boys? THANKS!

Peace, love, and happiness y'all!

-A.S.

[tgpo]

What file format are they? What is the file extention? Does Preview open it?

[pixeljammedia]

I believe (someone correct me here) that a Jacket image contained in a Jacket_P folder is a 1 frame mpeg. If you have the MPEG2 playback component for quicktime, I believe you can load it. You might try renaming the extension to MPG first.

[Albe Sure]

THANKS PJ!

Yeah, they're in mpg2 format (standard for DVD jacket images in the JACKET_P folder found on most DVDs, I guess). The file extensions for all the images are .MP2, and simply renaming the files to .MPG (as you suggested) worked great with Quicktime! Also, as you mentioned, it'd make sense that you'd need the MPG2 translater for QT in yo QT plug-ins folder for this to work properly.

Thanks again PJ for the timely response! You rock!

A.S.

[WiseWeasel]

If you don't want to pay for the QT MPEG2 Playback Component, VLC or MplayerX can also decode MPEG2, and for free.