Screen capture in native compression?

kamlem

Hi all.

Google has failed me so I figure you guys and gals may be able to answer my question.......

I have been using Bsplayer to get screencaps of the 720P films I have been posting on this site. My question is, what can I use to get an uncompressed image. What is the compression format used for the static images in Divx/Xvid/etc and what are the traps to look out for when trying to get a true representation of the picture quality available in avi files.

Your reward will be a nice uncompressed pic of Demon knight in 720P :mrgreen:

Thanks in advance

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:47 pm **Post subject:**

Look at the sticky topics in the release sections. BSplayer is an incredibly shitty way of taking pictures, use Nandub. This puts the image data, uncompressed, into your clipboard, you then just load up paint shop pro and save it.
.gif and .png have the ability for lossless compression, .png is far superior and is recommended.

I strongly recommend not using BSplayer for screenshots... ever.

kamlem · **Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:37 pm **Post subject:**

Thanks for the tips spud :beerchug:

This wiki entry was informative too...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG

ant_sunrise · **Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:14 pm **Post subject:**

I just use fraps. Works fine.
Also VLC player have a screencap option.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:05 pm **Post subject:**

fraps is not good, and VLC isn't much better either.
I say use nandub for a reason it uses the codec to render and isn't taking a picture of the overlay

Fraps takes a picture of the render with any effects you have over, and so does VLC which uses its own filters to render.

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