HELP! Can I rip a menu picture from old iDVD?

[67952]

Hey all, I found an old iDVD I made circa 2004. I managed to rip the 10 videos it contained using HandBreak to my Mac. However, there is a photo I used for one of the submenus on the iDVD that I would love to rip to my Mac.

This photo has high sentimental value and until I found this old iDVD, I thought the photo had been lost forever. To be clear, the photo is embedded in one of the submenus–it's not saved as an image file on the iDVD itself.

I couldn't find a way to extract the menu photo background through the Finder or through HandBreak. Is there any way to extract the menu photo to my Mac? macOS even prevents me from taking a screenshot of the menu.

Thanks for any help. It's really appreciated.

 

[Dave Braine]

Use VLC to play the DVD. You'll then be able to take a screenshot.

 

[kohlson]

I think what you're asking is - is the photo a file that is contained in the DVD media?
- And for clarification, it is a DVD right, and not an iDVD project file?

If you found the image on DVD media, the answer is most likely no. Programs like iDVD encode media (audio, video, images) into mpeg2 format such that they can be played on a DVD player. Without seeing the DVD, I'm assuming it contains only Video_TS and Audio_TS files. As @Dave Braine says above, get the image you want on the screen and do a screen capture.