openbox Your Own Personal Boot Image

[dreamypuma]

What is the best way to convert an image (jpg or bmp) to m2v format?

Does the picture need to be a certain format / resolution?

[dreamypuma]

Just tried upgrading the boot image on my S12 and got "system address error" on the info screen after the upgrade.

Any ideas?

[slugworth]

picture wrong size
extract original pic as a guide to the size

[slugworth]

What is the best way to convert an image (jpg or bmp) to m2v format?

Does the picture need to be a certain format / resolution?

pal 720x576
original pic has to be bigger then reduced to the proper size.

[dreamypuma]

pal 720x576
original pic has to be bigger then reduced to the proper size.

Just double checked the picture I created and it is the correct size.

I created it in Photoshop, and saved as a Jpeg then converted this to a m2v file using Batch DVD Stream converter.

Still no joy.

[slugworth]

I never had luck with boot images,back images I have done.
mst tool would say wrong size.

[dudeduality]

make .m2v under linux

Just a quick note for linux users - you can make the required .m2v file with ffmpeg. Backup your Back_logo.m2v first, before you overwrite. Any valid image format should work. Substitute -dsth 576 for PAL systems. If the .m2v file winds up zero bytes, don't use it, resize your image to appropriate 720x480 (or 576) and run ffmpeg again.

ffmpeg -i your_picture_file.jpg -dstw 720 -dsth 480 Back_logo.m2v

[TiNRiB]

Nice Linux alternative

Just a quick note for linux users - you can make the required .m2v file with ffmpeg. Backup your Back_logo.m2v first, before you overwrite. Any valid image format should work. Substitute -dsth 576 for PAL systems. If the .m2v file winds up zero bytes, don't use it, resize your image to appropriate 720x480 (or 576) and run ffmpeg again.

ffmpeg -i your_picture_file.jpg -dstw 720 -dsth 480 Back_logo.m2v

Thanks for that, so much easier using a command line in Linux