Friday, October 31, 2003
PocketTV Now Does JPEG Screen Captures
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:53 PM
"PocketTV can now capture and save images from the video in JPEG format (.jpg), using the "Save Image" command. On Pocket PC, this command is in the main menu. On Smartphone, this command is initially mapped by on "9" (to change the default mapping, go in "Functions"). If you are upgrading from a previous Smartphone version, you must select "Functions" to map the "Save Image" function on "9". JPEG images are small (a few KB's per image) and they can be viewed using PIE. On Pocket PC, you can open JPEG images using the File Explorer. All other Photo-album or Image viewer applications support JPEG files.
Previous versions of PocketTV could only save images in an obscure format called Targa RGB (raw, uncompressed) that very few applications could read. The raw images were very large files, not suitable for mobile communications. PocketTV Enterpise Edition still has the option of saving images in raw Targa RGB format (.tga). PocketTV can now send captured JPEG images by email. JPEG images are small, so they will not need a lot of network bandwidth. The default quality of JPEG images created by PocketTV is high (80 on a quality scale 0 to 100). You can change this by chaging the "JpegQuality" value under the PocketTV key in the Registry. By default PocketTV saves the JPEG images with the Gamma adjustments currently selected, so that the captured images will look as good as the video."
Previous versions of PocketTV could only save images in an obscure format called Targa RGB (raw, uncompressed) that very few applications could read. The raw images were very large files, not suitable for mobile communications. PocketTV Enterpise Edition still has the option of saving images in raw Targa RGB format (.tga). PocketTV can now send captured JPEG images by email. JPEG images are small, so they will not need a lot of network bandwidth. The default quality of JPEG images created by PocketTV is high (80 on a quality scale 0 to 100). You can change this by chaging the "JpegQuality" value under the PocketTV key in the Registry. By default PocketTV saves the JPEG images with the Gamma adjustments currently selected, so that the captured images will look as good as the video."
