Question for the Geeks

As a valentine present for the new hubby, I went and had some Glamour Shots done of the new me this past weekend. They really kill you with prices though, so after picking ony 4 of the shots to get printed up (haven't gotten them yet), they gave me a DVD with a video slideshow of my entire photo session. (I'm sure it is copyrighted, but....) My question is this: Is there any way to print or download that video to my picturetrail website, or to capture images from it digitally. If I put the DVD into a computer that only has a CD slot, it doesn't recognize it. If I put into a computer that has a DVD slot, it automatically plays it. If I view the "contents" via the "Explore" button, there are several files, but no .jpg or other obvious picture files. Can you give me any help here around this? Thanks Nannette

Nan, Bring the disc along to the meeting on Friday. I'll take it home & check it out. If there's anything that can be done with it... I'll be able to handle it for ya. No Sweat. -A.J.

IF I was to take a DVD (I have a DVD Drive) and be watching a Movie- If I hit the PRINT SCREEN button, it should Copy that image to the clipboard. You can then take that Copied Image to print or manipulate anyway U want Let me know, I can always bring my Laptop on Friday----Maybe therre is a Wi-FI and we can send it to you at home Chris

Thanks AJ - I will. Hugs, Nan

She's got a DVD - that means that the pictures are all encoded in the VOB files. If any of you have DVD ripping software, like you find at dvdhelp.com, you can probably reverse-engineer the files - unless it's a Data DVD. Still, if it was a data DVD, she'd probably see image files. If either of you gentlemen who offered to help Nanette have any questions, feel free to drop me a message. I'd come down to Tom's River myself, but I work in Mahwah, and that's one heck of a drive. Tami

Hey Tami - sounds like you know your stuff. I believe they are indeed VOB files. I'll see if AJ can figure it out for me. Thanks for the offer of info. Hugs, Nannette

Being in information security, I am going to..uh..umm..tell you to..err..respect the rights of the people who produced the dvd..and um..err..do the right thing... ..or something like that.

Oh, brother......

She's making a small selection of images of herself for personal use. That would fall under the "fair use" clause of copyright, even if the rights were vested in the photographer, which, in this case, I doubt, since SHE paid HIM to make the photos and video. AFAIK, that makes the video HER property, to do with as she wishes.