Convert photos on DVD to iPhoto format Help Please

I made a DVD on iDVD of all my photos from a trip to Central Australia.
I wrongly assumed that this would provide a backup.
My Hard Drive crashed and I lost all the originals.
How can I convert the photos on the DVD back to iPhoto format?

Hello, captncruise,
Welcome to the discussions.
Sorry that you had a drive crash.
Remember the three rules of computering:
1. Back up
2. Back up
3. and Back up again.
Get an external drive and back up your entire iPhoto Library! Right now!
What did you have on the DVD....iPhoto slideshow? iMovie of photos? Slideshow created in iDVD? Or, you burned the photos to the DVD-ROM area? If it is the latter, you can just open the ROM file and drag the photos out in their full resolution, so I am assuming that you did not do this.
If the photos are within an iDVD project, you can retrieve them, but you will lose significant resolution. You will need to use another application to extract the video. You can use Handbrake, or MPEG Streamclip to convert the video clips to DV format and you can 'Save Frame' as JPEG for each photo. However, the results are very grainy and not clear.
You might want to look into something like these: http://www.xilisoft.com/dvd-snapshot-mac.html
http://www.imtoo.com/dvd-to-picture-mac.html
I have not used these...and I am skeptical of anything that says it can produce stunning photos, but they are not too expensive, $25 and might be worth it to you to retrieve your precious photos, even in cruder form.

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