converting movie clips to JPG?

[LisaB]

How did you get this AVSEQ file in the first place? Do you still have the original VCD? VCD's are burned using mode 2, and so they have different sector sizes than data CD's.....if you just dragged the AVSEQ directly off the VCD using windows, then your AVSEQ file may be completely messed up.

You should *always* use ISOBuster to extract the video content from a VCD. (You can also use VCDEasy, and probably VCDGear to rip VCD's)

It is remotely possible that you could still extract the video from your AVSEQ with VCDGear if you enable the "Force Sector Read Size" option, but honestly I don't know much about this and have never had to do it, so I couldn't even tell you if this would work, or what sector read size to use.

[nerie]

I created the SVCD disk with VCDeasy. The file structure is not messed up, and the disk is not messed either, as evidenced by the perfect playback on my pioneer dv-333 standalone dvd player.

Originally, I had many JPG files that I wanted to make into an SVCD slideshow with VCDeasy. I did this, and the disk turned out perfectly. All I really want to do is extract the files from the SVCD disk (which are now called movie clips) and make them into JPG files.

I want to do this because I lost a chunk of my JPG files and want to recover them. I cannot believe that this operation is as complex as it seems. Granted, I am not a PhD in video editing, but have a basic concept of how things work....

It upsets me when people jump to the conclusion that my system and my disk are messed up. I format my hard drive on a regular basis and error messages are non-existent. The SVCD disk works fine!

[LisaB]

Who said that you disk was messed up?

Anyway, you still didn't answer the question of how you transferred the avseq file from the SVCD to your hard drive.....if you did this using windows, then your avseq file may be corrupted.

Ignore what I said about VCDGear....You have an SVCD, and I was thinking VCD when I said that.

Instead, use the cdxa2mpeg tool in vcdeasy to convert your avseq to a true mpg.

*OR* (and this is the safer bet), run ISOBuster, browse to your avseq file, right click on it and choose "Extract but filter only m2f2 mpeg frames". This is the way you should always get video files off of a VCD or SVCD. The result will be a true mpg file, and you won't have to convert it with VCDEasy.

[nerie]

ok, this step was completed without error. I hate to ask, but now what? Please remember my ultimate goal: JPG files.

[nerie]

Ok, an update.

First, I stated that I had 1,308 video clips in one file. This is incorrect: I have 1,308 movie clips in one folder. This makes a difference.

Second, I was able to do the "Extract but FILTER only m2f2 Mpeg frames" thing. I did this to the folder with the 1,308 movie clips.

Third, I downloaded an MPEG 2 codec and installed it.

Fourth, (not sure if this makes any difference), but I am at least able to view the movie clips in windows media player.

How can I achieve my ultimate goal of converting these 1,308 movie clip files to JPG files?

Thanks!

[nerie]

I was able to merge all 1,308 movie clips together with dv-tool. Now, I have one big file, containing all the clips. I used Vdubmod to get BMP files. After this, I used Irfanview to to convert to JPG, but only got the first file. It looks like VDUBMOD converted only the first file, since the size of the resulting BMP file is only 990kb. I thought that VDUBMOD would convert all the files, and then Irfanview to get to the JPG files?