Screen Capturing

[pointer]

My new capture software of choice is CyberLink's Power DVD 6. It's not free, but I got mine fairly reasonable. I like the ability to fast forward and back at several speeds, and once you get where you want to go, the frame-by-frame advance is pretty smooth. The only drawback is every snapshot is saved as a .bmp. No biggy really since I fire up Irfanview and batch process all into .jpgs in a snap. Irfanview is freeware and in my experience one of the handiest of all programs. I use it constantly to resize, or even something as simple as flipping a picture.

You can save the pics also as .jpg in PowerDVD!!! Go to the programs advanced properties and then to the screenshoot-tab. There is a possibility to decide in what format and where you want to save the screenshots...

[bill_az]

There are very good standalone image capture programs. I use ImageGrabber, it handles every file type I've come across except *.flv files.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ImageGrabber

[butler bill]

Whenever I get an flv file I use SUPER to convert it to avi. It is freeware and simple to use

[echoes]

You can save the pics also as .jpg in PowerDVD!!! Go to the programs advanced properties and then to the screenshoot-tab. There is a possibility to decide in what format and where you want to save the screenshots...

i'd recommend against this. i'd actually recommend against using jpeg in general, but unfortunately & obviously it is the most widely used image format on the web.
PNG is a lossless image format. it does not throw away image quality, unlike jpeg. as a matter of fact, it uses compression like zip to compress images. there is no artifacting like in jpeg.

example:


png has practically as widespread support as jpeg, its just that not as many ppl know about png.

its better cuz its lossless. you can compress your image without losing any quality!

[pointer]

You can save the pics also as .jpg in PowerDVD!!! Go to the programs advanced properties and then to the screenshoot-tab. There is a possibility to decide in what format and where you want to save the screenshots...

i'd recommend against this...

...to save the Images as .jpg is one possibility in PowerDVD. If you prefer .png, you can adjust this...

In my opinion the best format for pics is .tif...

[echoes]

You can save the pics also as .jpg in PowerDVD!!! Go to the programs advanced properties and then to the screenshoot-tab. There is a possibility to decide in what format and where you want to save the screenshots...

agreed. you can do whatever you want or whatever suits your needs. it was just advice, not a dictate.

...to save the Images as .jpg is one possibility in PowerDVD. If you prefer .png, you can adjust this...

In my opinion the best format for pics is .tif...

i agree with this also, sort of. because they're both lossless, image quality isn't a factor. what it comes down to is compression. png produces smaller file sizes....
but if one doesn't care about filesize, then either png or tif will do, doesn't matter either way.

[MARKK]

You can save the pics also as .jpg in PowerDVD!!! Go to the programs advanced properties and then to the screenshoot-tab. There is a possibility to decide in what format and where you want to save the screenshots...

agreed. you can do whatever you want or whatever suits your needs. it was just advice, not a dictate.

...to save the Images as .jpg is one possibility in PowerDVD. If you prefer .png, you can adjust this...

In my opinion the best format for pics is .tif...

i agree with this also, sort of. because they're both lossless, image quality isn't a factor. what it comes down to is compression. png produces smaller file sizes....
but if one doesn't care about filesize, then either png or tif will do, doesn't matter either way.

Just thanks to everybody in this thread for all the info! =D>

[echoes]

something else i might mention in defense of png vs tif, is that png is a free open source format, tif is not. (and maybe cuz of that, png has wider support).