Extract image from DVD, add different sound and burn new DVD?

I am a composer for film and TV. My clients send me DVDs that have inferior sound. I would like to extract the image from the DVD, add a better sound file (48k16bit) and drop this in iDVD to create a final DVD. How do I do this?

It seems to me that you have 2 choices. 1) ask the clients to send a DV tape instead of disc. Import using program using program of choice (iMovie, FCE, FCP). Delete the audio (or not even import it) and drop you audio in- send to DVD. This is the best option as you shouldn't lose any visual quality. 2) De-Mux the DVD so that you have an audio/video stream. Google demux and I am sure a few solutions will pop up. In essence, a DVD has the audio/video "muxed", kid of a combination clip for DVD playback. You want to separate "clips", one for audio, one for video. Then replace the audio and send to DVD. The catch here is that you will lose some quality in the video by taking it from one format to another format back to the original format. A third solution may exist if the DVD you are sent do NOT have muxed files. If they already have a separate file for audio and video... but I doubt it.
Mike

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How do I save my video in jpeg format so I can add picture to it and burn a DVD through Photo Explosion version 4

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Thanks for the follow up.
In Premiere Elements 13/13.1, your export choices are in the Publish+Share section of the project. There are several choices and sub-choices.
Example: Publish+Share/Computer/and then a list of choices under that, such as, MPEG, AVI, AVCHD, XAVC-S, Windows Media, QuickTime, Image, Audio.
And each has Presets which define the export settings. Adobe offers default settings which are usually optimized ones. But, it also allows you to customize the preset selected. You do that by clicking on the Advanced Button of the selected preset and customizing the settings under the Video Tab, Audio Tab, and, if applicable, Multiplexer Tab.
From what you wrote, I thought that you might be asking about exporting a video with a video codec = Photo JPEG.
To do that you would to to
Publish+Share
Computer
QuickTime
with Presets = either the one for 4:3 of 16:9 as appropriate for your project,
and then clicking on the Advanced Button, and then the Video Tab under the Advanced Button.
Then selecting Photo JPEG for the video codec field.
Tip: The QuickTime choice is not seen unless you scroll down the list of Computer choices. Use the thin scroll bar to the right of the Computer choices.
Please explore Premiere Elements 13/13.1's Publish+Share/Disc/DVD with standard or widescreen preset for your creation of the DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc.
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Please consider.
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Good day,
I would like to start a discussion on extracting image (binary data) from a relational database. Although some might say that extracting image from directories is a better approach, I m still sceptic on that implementation.
My argument towards this is based on the reasonings below:
1. Easier maintainence. - System Administrator can do backup from one place which is the database.
2. High level of security - can anyone tell me how easy it is to hack into a database server?
3. image is not dependent on file structure - no more worries about broken links because some one might mistakenly change the directory structure. If there needs to be a change, it will be handle efficiently by the database server.
The intention of my question is to find out :
1. Why is taking image from a directory folder which resides on the web server is better than using the same approach from the database?
2. How is this approach (taking image from directory) scalable if there is thousands of images and text that needs to be served?
If anybody would be kind enough to reply, I would be most grateful.
Thank You.
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Databases are typically more oriented towards text and number content than binary content, I believe. If you carry images in the database you will need to run them through your code and through your java server before they are displayed. If they are held in a directory they will be called from hrefs in the produced page, which means that they are served by your static server. This is quicker because no processing of the image is required. It also means the Database has to handle massively less data. Depending on the database this should be far quicker to query.
It is worth noting that it is also quite difficult to actually change mime-types on a page to display a picture in the midst of HTML- the number of enquiries on these pages about this topic should be enough to illustrate this.
If you give over controls of all the image file handling to your java system (which I do when I write sites like the one you describe) then the actual program knows where to put the images and automatically adds them to the database. The system administrator never needs to touch them. If they want a backup they save the database and the website directory. The second of those should be a standard administrative task anyway, so there is not a huge difference there. The danger of someone accidentally changing the directory structure is no greater than the danger of someone accidentally dropping a database table- it can be minimised by making sure your administrators are competent. Directory structures can be changed back, dropped tables are gone.
The security claim is slightly negated because you still have to run a webserver. Every program you run on your server is vulnerable to attack but if you are serving web pages you will have a server program that is faster than a database for image handling. You are far more at risk from running FTP or Telnet on your server or (worst of all) trying to maintain IIS.
The images in directory structure is more scalable because very large databases are more likely to become unstable and carrying a 50k image in every image field rather than 2 bytes of text will make the database roughly 25000 times larger. I have already mentioned the difference in serving methods which stands in favour of recycling images. A static site will be faster than a dynamic site of equivalent size, so where you can, take advantage of that.

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Hi Dave,
Thanks for the reply. My question was not regarding any non-Adobe product like pdfimages. It was in general the way Acrobat handles the images while creating pdfs.
I wanted to know why can we select some of the images from the pdf using select tool and can not select others for which we need to print screen and cut. Is there anything in the eps files of included image that causes such effect?
Thanks.

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I was trying to stop using Word but this simple little feature will make all the difference.
Can anyone point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
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Same image copied then pasted in to an image editor (as I couldn't paste into finder) was only 300px wide.
The feature I need is to be able to save out the original image placed in the Numbers sheet.
Anyone with ideas on this?

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Extracting Images from EPS - Problem with the Output

Hello,
I got a big problem extracting images from an EPS, which has been made in InDesign. The image does not appear correct.
Source code:
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%ALDImageCropFixed: 0 0 30 30
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%ALDImageType: 4 8
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[14.4 0 0 14.4 203.868 344.891 ]ct
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[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
[AGMIMG_fl 30 string /rs cvx /pop cvx] cvx
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Orginal image Size 553,9 KB
After decoding the size is only 1,8 KB
First try.
public class ASCII85Decode {
private ByteBuffer buf;
* initialize the decoder with byte buffer in ASCII85 format
private ASCII85Decode(ByteBuffer buf) {
this.buf = buf;
* get the next character from the input.
* @return the next character, or -1 if at end of stream
private int nextChar() {
// skip whitespace
// returns next character, or -1 if end of stream
while (buf.remaining() > 0) {
char c = (char) buf.get();
if (!isWhiteSpace(c)) {
return c;
// EOF reached
return -1;
public static boolean isWhiteSpace(int c) {
return (c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\r' || c == '\n'
|| c == 0 || c == 12);
// 0=nul, 12=ff
* decode the next five ASCII85 characters into up to four decoded
* bytes. Return false when finished, or true otherwise.
* @param baos the ByteArrayOutputStream to write output to, set to the
* correct position
* @return false when finished, or true otherwise.
private boolean decode5(ByteArrayOutputStream baos)
throws PDFParseException {
// stream ends in ~>
int[] five = new int[5];
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
five[i] = nextChar();
if (five[i] == '~') {
if (nextChar() == '>') {
break;
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Bad character in ASCII85Decode: not ~>");
} else if (five[i] >= '!' && five[i] <= 'u') {
five[i] -= '!';
} else if (five[i] == 'z') {
if (i == 0) {
five[i] = 0;
i = 4;
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Inappropriate 'z' in ASCII85Decode");
} else {
throw new PDFParseException(
"Bad character in ASCII85Decode: " + five[i]
+ " (" + (char) five[i] + ")");
if (i > 0) {
i -= 1;
int value = five[0] * 85 * 85 * 85 * 85 + five[1] * 85 * 85
* 85 + five[2] * 85 * 85 + five[3] * 85 + five[4];
for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {
int shift = 8 * (3 - j);
baos.write((byte) ((value >> shift) & 0xff));
return (i == 4);
* decode the bytes
* @return the decoded bytes
private ByteBuffer decode() throws PDFParseException {
// start from the beginning of the data
buf.rewind();
// allocate the output buffer
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
// decode the bytes
while (decode5(baos)) {
return ByteBuffer.wrap(baos.toByteArray());
* decode an array of bytes in ASCII85 format.
* <p>
* In ASCII85 format, every 5 characters represents 4 decoded
* bytes in base 85. The entire stream can contain whitespace,
* and ends in the characters '~>'.
* @param buf the encoded ASCII85 characters in a byte buffer
* @param params parameters to the decoder (ignored)
* @return the decoded bytes
public static ByteBuffer decode(ByteBuffer buf)
throws PDFParseException {
ASCII85Decode me = new ASCII85Decode(buf);
return me.decode();
2. Try
public class Ascii85Decode {
private final FileOutputStream fos;
private Ascii85Decode() throws FileNotFoundException {
File f = new File("/home/markus/1/test/bild.jpg");
fos = new FileOutputStream(f);
@Override
protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
fos.close();
super.finalize();
public static byte[] decode(byte[] in) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
Ascii85Decode ascii85Decode = new Ascii85Decode();
ascii85Decode.setData(in);
ascii85Decode.decode85();
return null;
static long pow85[] = {85 * 85 * 85 * 85, 85 * 85 * 85, 85 * 85, 85, 1};
private byte[] in;
private void setData(byte[] in) {
this.in = in;
void wput(long tuple, int bytes) throws IOException {
switch (bytes) {
case 4:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 8));
putchar((int) tuple);
break;
case 3:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 8));
break;
case 2:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
putchar((int) (tuple >> 16));
break;
case 1:
putchar((int) (tuple >> 24));
break;
void decode85() throws IOException {
long tuple = 0;
int c, count = 0;
int i=0;
for (;;) {
switch (c = in[i]) {
default:
if (c < '!' || c > 'u') {
System.err.println("%s: bad character in ascii85 region: %#o\n");
System.exit(1);
tuple += (c - '!') * pow85[count++];
if (count == 5) {
wput(tuple, 4);
count = 0;
tuple = 0;
break;
case 'z':
if (count != 0) {
System.err.println("%s: z inside ascii85 5-tuple\n");
System.exit(1);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
putchar(0);
break;
case '~':
if (in[i+1] == '>') {
if (count > 0) {
count--;
tuple += pow85[count];
wput(tuple, count);
c = in[i+1];
return;
System.err.println("%s: ~ without > in ascii85 section\n");
System.exit(1);
case '\n':
case '\r':
case '\t':
case ' ':
case '\0':
case '\f':
case '\b':
case 0177:
break;
i++;
private void putchar(int l) throws IOException {
//System.out.write(l);
fos.write(l);
Does anybody have an idea to solve the problem?

A scan from string function can be used as per the attachment. The double \ ('\\') is in the format string in order to interpret the '\' characters in your input string as literal characters and not special formatting.
Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 07-10-2006 03:53 PM
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