How to 'disassemble' a photo CD

[AlanCake]

Hi

Would really appreciate some help with this one guys. I though I had lost about 1 years worth of pictures of my kids. Luckily however I had made a photo CD of them using Nero.

So what I've got is about 300 .dat files which I want to convert back to jpgs. Any ideas how I might do this?

Kind regards

Alan

[AlphaGeeK]

I have not tried this with a Nero authored PhotoCD, but Photoshop can import images from a PhotoCD.

You could try that.

Also, if the .dat files are just mpeg streams, you could use VCDGear to convert them back to mpeg, load in to a video editing tool and save a frame as a .jpg.

[kitty]

The pictures are encoded as some sort of mpeg stills, nonstandard if Michael Tam is correct. You might ask him as I have looked at ripping stills off a Ulead DVD pictureshow disk and gave up.

[kjmacke]

You might try this. Move the pics to your hard then just rename them with the jpeg extension. Dont know if this will work but it was a good thought.

[Ethelred]

The mpg stills produced by the philips vcd2 toolkit are a low res pic (352 x 288) muxed together with a high res pic (704 x 576) (yes, i live in a pal country). I don't know of any graphics or video program which can interpret these properly.

[Ethelred]

I've thought about this a bit more. You should be able to use tmpgenc to demultiplex the streams, then load them into any mpg player to show them. If you use hympeg, you can save the bitmaps direct. Available from http://cui.unige.ch/~deguilla/WM/wm.html