The following screenshots were taken from all parts of the source and may possibly contain spoilers or adult content. They have also been converted from the original source for computer display and may not accurately represent the full-motion experience, so they should not be taken as a final indicator of actual video quality.

Current mplayer SVN builds compiled by Gianluigi Tiesi are used to create Blu-ray screenshots with the following command-line:

mplayer -nosound -vo png:z=5 -vf framestep=I X:\BDMV\STREAM\12345.m2ts

This command decodes all video I-frames from the source using the built-in ffmpeg video codecs for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1. The I-frames are saved as losslessly compressed PNG images which have been expanded to full-range RGB colorspace. It is possible that bugs in the ffmpeg video codecs and colorspace conversion routines may occasionally prevent a given image from accurately representing its source frame.

After all the I-frames have been extracted, a smaller subset of candidate images is automatically selected using a custom image similarity comparison program to reduce the number of candidate images to around 2,500 typically. These candidate images are then individually inspected to select the final set. On rare occasions, images that are not I-frames will be manually added to the final set using mplayer in interactive mode if a specific desired scene or moment was not ideally captured as an I-frame, but this practice is usually avoided.

The final set of screenshots is then losslessly recompressed to achieve a slightly better compression ratio using ImageMagick from the command-line:

convert *.png -quality 0 -scene 1 screenshot-lrg-%02d.png

Downscaled versions of the images for the gallery display are also created using a similar ImageMagick command:

convert *-lrg-*.png -quality 0 -resize 824 -scene 1 screenshot-med-%02d.jpg