New ton Stills

[oly19]

what is the best program to capture my stills in at a high resolution other than 352x240.Or are there any opinions on what you would use.

[keithsebastian]

Create Bitmaps at

PAL: resize 768x576 --> 704x576
NTSC: resize 768x576 --> 704x480

(The resize step is to take care strectching due to change in aspect ratio while displaying on 4:3 TV)

Now use Philips Video CD toolkit 2 to make mpeg stills.
It's free for download and gives really high quality stills.
Search for a how to use guide on the net by mikk (mikk999@yahoo.com).
Rename the mms file to mpeg and use it as a still.
-Keith

[vitualis]

mikk's guide is here: http://www.geocities.com/mikk999/VCDStills.htm

It should be noted that VCDEasy can now make "real" (well, they mostly seem to work) S/VCD stills and do all the resizing, letter boxing, aspect ratio correcting work for you.

Regards.

[keithsebastian]

Yeah, but the quality is still bad. Especially for text.

[vitualis]

Are you sure?

From experience (using VCDEasy + MJPEGTools 1.6.0-rc2) on the "highest quality/size" setting, the quality seems excellent.

Regards.