Hi, Mike.... sorry, I wasn't entirely clear. The pictures are currently archived on a videodisk. One still picture per frame on the disk. It is in fact a video, you can play it as such, and you end up fast forwarding through all of the pictures.

The easiest scenario that we're thinking of is to:

1. Digitize the video to a hard disk using a standard computer video format like avi, mg, QuickTime, etc.

2. Create a VFP flat file which contains the frame number of each picture

3. Have a button on the screen that goes to the appropriate frame and displays the picture.

It is #3 that I'm wondering how best to implement. This would allow us to keep the file as a video file. Alternatively, I suppose we could make each frame into an individual jpg file, which I've seen before with some video capture cards.


>Hi Larry,
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>I don't quite understand you request. In the first sentence, you say "video" but then in the last sentence you say "digital image". Which one is it? Or perhaps it's both? By "video" am I correct in thinking that you are referring to motion video like a movie (file formats like avi, mpg, wmv, etc.)?
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>Mike
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>>Can anyone suggest an approach to allow frame by frame browsing of a video stored on CD? We're looking to convert an old VideoDisk of images for a building-permit database.
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>>Basically we're running a flat file, which stores the address of the property, and ownership information, and then a digital image of the property.
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>>Naturally, we want to do the interface and data storage in VFP.
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>>TIA