How do I make a Picture Disc?

[Xoanon]

Does anyone know how to make a Picture Disc DVD? Its often listed as an extra feature, particularly on Region 4 DVDs. As far as I can tell, a Picture Disc displays a graphic of the film's title on your TV screen when you press Stop on your remote. For this to work, however, you need to go into your DVD player's setup menu and choose "Jacket" or similar option under Background Display.

Anyone know what I mean? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[garrisonkw]

Search for JACKET_P in the forums. I remember seeing a post about this.

Basically, you create a file that is a single frame of MPEG-2 video. It's stored in a JACKET_P folder that sits right next to AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS on the DVD. There are normally 3 files in the folder. The largest of the three would be used as a background.

Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.

Edit: Just found this...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1143036

[canadateck]

Heres One Guide.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148301&highlight=jacket

[Xoanon]

Thanks a load, people!

[guns1inger]

When they boast about it being a "Picture Disk", all they are saying is that it has a nice picture screened onto the non-playing surface of the disk. Calling the "label" an extra feature seemed a bit lame. Mind you, there are still disks being released that call Scene Selection a special feature. Some people must be easily impressed. Jacket_P is nice, although I've never seen a player that supports it. But that isn't what they are referring to here.

[Xoanon]

I thought it was the label but Im pretty sure its the jacket pic.

[Cornucopia]

When they boast about it being a "Picture Disk", all they are saying is that it has a nice picture screened onto the non-playing surface of the disk. Calling the "label" an extra feature seemed a bit lame. Mind you, there are still disks being released that call Scene Selection a special feature. Some people must be easily impressed. Jacket_P is nice, although I've never seen a player that supports it. But that isn't what they are referring to here.

The way the studios see it, anything that has features beyond a simple VHS would be a DVD "Special Feature". That includes alot that we now take for granted.

Scott

[guns1inger]

GavSalkeld - I have few disks with this on the cover and they just have the standard audio_ts and video_ts folders.

[TBoneit]

When they boast about it being a "Picture Disk", all they are saying is that it has a nice picture screened onto the non-playing surface of the disk. Calling the "label" an extra feature seemed a bit lame. Mind you, there are still disks being released that call Scene Selection a special feature. Some people must be easily impressed. Jacket_P is nice, although I've never seen a player that supports it. But that isn't what they are referring to here.

I don't know if you consider it supporting Jacket_P but on my Sony 400 Disk Changer it will use the jacket_p picture as a thumbnail in the disc explorer.

[subferno]

I have been making jacket images using Tmpg for a while now and am getting lazy.

Is there a dedicated application to just making jacket images? Where all I have to do is give it an image and it would automatically generate 3 files with the proper resolutions?

Another question I have is how come my image quality drops tremendously after I converted them to the jacket format. How do commercial companies maintain such high quality images for their jackets?