Capturing title picture from PowerDVD...Why fuzzy blurry in end product (SVCD)?

JFerguson · 12th April 2002, 22:53

Hey guys.

I've been capturing Title Pictures from PowerDVD for my rips. I load up the DVD in PowerDVD, wait until it hits the root menu (where the links for Play, Special Features, Chapters, etc. are) and use PowerDVD's snapshot feature to capture the picture.

These snapshots are generally 720x480x24-bit. They look really good when brought up in a paint program.

They don't look so good, though, in the finished SVCD. Fairly blurry and soft, with a number of artifacts (??) around the perimeter of objects (especially text).

Kinda new to this stuff. I think I tried resizing (while maintaining aspect ratio) the pics to 480 width in a couple of cases, with no improvement. I think the menu got smaller in that case. Also, these title pictures are converted into MPEG-2, right?

Bear with me here, I hardly know what I'm doing, since kind of new to this. Also, I read all the faqs, and did an exhaustive search before posting this. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks...

p.s. - There's a broken link (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5686) in this sticky post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19566).

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JFerguson Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 377	Capturing title picture from PowerDVD...Why fuzzy blurry in end product (SVCD)? Hey guys. I've been capturing Title Pictures from PowerDVD for my rips. I load up the DVD in PowerDVD, wait until it hits the root menu (where the links for Play, Special Features, Chapters, etc. are) and use PowerDVD's snapshot feature to capture the picture. These snapshots are generally 720x480x24-bit. They look really good when brought up in a paint program. They don't look so good, though, in the finished SVCD. Fairly blurry and soft, with a number of artifacts (??) around the perimeter of objects (especially text). Kinda new to this stuff. I think I tried resizing (while maintaining aspect ratio) the pics to 480 width in a couple of cases, with no improvement. I think the menu got smaller in that case. Also, these title pictures are converted into MPEG-2, right? Bear with me here, I hardly know what I'm doing, since kind of new to this. Also, I read all the faqs, and did an exhaustive search before posting this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks... p.s. - There's a broken link (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5686) in this sticky post (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19566).