DVD and/or MPEG player

Hi.

Does anyone know whether the following is available?

1.  software program that reads and plays DVDs and has the following capability

    a.  single step through the video on a frame by frame basis
    b.  do a frame capture and write it to a file in a standard video format
        like PPM

1.  software program that reads and plays MPEGs and has the following capability

    a.  single step through the video on a frame by frame basis
    b.  do a frame capture and write it to a file in a standard video format
        like PPM

Thanks.

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Hi Jeremy,

This tool is worth checking:

http://www-ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/vcdemo/

As far as I remember it can save the decoded MPEG frames as raw YUV images.

Regards,
-- Georgi


"Jeremy Smith" <x_luke@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know whether the following is available?
>
> 1.  software program that reads and plays DVDs and has the following
capability
>
>     a.  single step through the video on a frame by frame basis
>     b.  do a frame capture and write it to a file in a standard video
format
>         like PPM
>
> 1.  software program that reads and plays MPEGs and has the following
capability
>
>     a.  single step through the video on a frame by frame basis
>     b.  do a frame capture and write it to a file in a standard video
format
>         like PPM
>
> Thanks.
>
> Please respond by submitting a response to the newsgroup.  The e-mail
address
> in the header does not work.