Really poor image quality when watching DVDs

Hi,
I was just wondering whether anybody else has experienced really poor image quality whilst watching DVDs on their MacBook? For me, the image is really grainy or blurry. I am pretty sure it cannot be the DVDs as this problem is happening with every film I watch!
Is this a common problem? What can be done (if anything) to resolve this?
Many thanks,
John

Hi John,
open system preference>display, and check if your color depth is in millions color.
try other dvd player like VLC for mac:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
Good Luck.

Similar Messages

  • Has anyone had issues with poor image quality when using lightroom to process raw images from Canon 7dmk2

    Hi everyone..
    ..I have been having image quality issues when using Lightroom to process raw files from a 7d mk2... They are all soft with poor clarity.....tonight in despair I tried processing them  using  canon's software and they are totally different..."much better"
    anyone else had similar problems....Andy

    I have a 7D2 and have not had what I interpret as poor image quality that has anything to do with the camera.
    Can you post a screenshot of what you’re seeing and what specifically you don’t like?  Maybe there is something you can do differently or at least there may be an explanation for what you’re seeing.
    And if you have a raw image that you wouldn’t mind sharing in a public forum, upload to http://www.dropbox.com/ then post a public share link to it in a reply, here.
    In other words post a screenshot of what you see in LR, another of what you see using DPP, and a link to the raw file you’re processing.

  • Really bad image quality when burning

    Hi, i am very new at this discussion thing and am a french speaker so hope i do this ansking question ok.
    I'm having problems with image quality of my 1h46 min movie imported from imovie (initially from quicktime made from final cut pro). I am having pixelly images when camera is moving... Although have read some things about this on the forum none of the answers seem to resolve my problem.
    I have selected best quality in my prefs but with no success. I figure it's a compression / codec problem but i do not have a clue about all this technical stuff. I don't know what next move i should make.
    Thanks for any help...
    V
    I'm using iMac G5 divided my 250 GB in 2 disks wich has 31 Go of free space on my HD at the moment. Using iDVD and i Movie 6.0.2
    Imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   2.1 GHz Power PC G5, mémoire 1.5 GO DDR2 SDram

    Hi ! Thanx for responding...
    In FCP i did choose export DV/NTSC and imported from camera with apple firewire NTSC (720x480). Should i have imported material in (640x480/30fps/interlaced...) ?
    I have had this problem with smaller projects of 20 min of video also so i don't think it has to do with size... At the moment i am making a disc image of my dvd on my desktop hoping to burn through Toast. Otherwise i am also thinking about exporting movie from FCP to tape then importing back to iMov through camera...
    I'm kind of desperate and don't really know what to do... I'm also gonna start reading compressor 2 and maybe forget about iDVD an d just burn it through toast. Wich is kind of dissapointing cause without interface, menu and all...
    V

  • Poor Image Quality when Printing PDF from Office 07 using Acrobat 9 Pro Ext

    Hi there,
    Hoping to figure out why my images (jpegs, gifs, pngs, etc) seem to print in very poor quality when printing from Powerpoint and Word 2007?
    When I actually print out the pdf onto paper, the images seem fine. The image quality is also good in Word and Excel
    I did not have this problem using Office 2003 products.
    Is this a common problem? I realize that the problem maybe Office related but any help or information appreciated.
    Thanks

    If the images' file format is PNG or TIFF you could play with the compression settings available in Acrobat's Preferences.
    Edit > Preferences > select the Category "Convert to PDF".
    In the"Converting To PDF" pane, select PNG or TIFF.
    Then, click on the Edit Settings" button.
    For either image format you could try one of the Lossless compression routines.
    Be well...

  • Poor image quality when publishing to .mac

    This is very frustrating.
    I buy a high resolution, high quality, royalty-free image. I resize it and crop it in my image editing program and save it as a maximum size .jpg.
    I preview the image in Apple preview, and also drag the image into my web browser and it looks crisp and sharp.
    I put the image on my iWeb page and publish to .mac. I check my site and the image looks horrible! It looks as though it got compressed again on the lowest setting.
    Something very weird is happening to some people. I've read other discussion on this but they are all unresolved.
    I'm a graphic designer and I've used dreamweaver and published to other servers. I know about image quality and optimization. I'm doing the same steps and procedures I've always done to optimize images and I've never had this problem except when I publish to .mac.
    There is a very weird and serious issue going on and I hope someone can resolve this or has an answer.
    Why would an image look crisp and sharp when I view it in my image editing program or in Apple preview, but when publish to .mac it gets re-compressed?
    This may sound silly but do you think Apple is doing this randomly and automatically to users to save server space on .mac? Maybe they think people wont notice or care?
    I am very upset and frustrated and I can't think of any other reason why this is happening.
    Any advice is helpful. Thanks!

    James,
    Thank you very much for your help.
    Here is what I did. I used Apple grab and took a screen shot of my iWeb page where the low res graphic was in position.
    I used this as a "template" for cropping my original image in my image editing program to the exact size I needed.
    I cropped my original image to the size of my "grab" template, deleted the template layer and saved the sharp image as a maximum file size .jpg and placed it into my iWeb page, with "use original size". It fit perfectly in my layout and looked sharp and crisp.
    Now, I published my site and checked the image.
    You were correct! The image came out crisp and sharp, no more quality loss.
    To test your theory, I went back to iWeb and placed an iWeb mask around the same image and re-published it.
    Sure enough! The same image that was once sharp had terrible image loss.
    So I guess you're right, adding any effects to an image creates the image loss.
    Well, this is a terrible shame because I really like some of the border effects. For example, in a photo gallery, you can use an effect such as a slight page curl with drop shadow that appears only for the thumbnail image but the when you click on the image full size, there is no page curl, just the pure image.
    If I create this slight page curl effect and drop shadow in my image editing program, then both my thumbnail and full size image will have this effect.
    Not only that, but in order to get the thumbnail image to lay over my background color, I would have to re-create the page curl effect and place it on a border of the same background color as my page layout. When someone clicks on my thumbnail they will now get the full size image with the page curl effect and a slight border of the page color.
    Also creating this effect in my image editing program will make it more time consuming when I want to change layout styles, because when I create the page curl / drop shadow in my image editing program, I have to change the background color around each image to match the new background color I'm using for my page. Doing this for 20 images every time I want to change my design is allot of work.
    If this is what I have to do, then I have no choice. But at least I would like my thumbnail to have the effect but NOT my full size image.
    How do I do this so only my iWeb thumbnail image has this effect without iWeb forcing it to a PNG and loosing quality?
    Thanks I appreciate you help!

  • Poor image quality when sending via Mail?

    This is a new problem for me, yet I'm doing the same thing I always have... Previously, I could "Email" from iPhoto, select an image quality and size, and have it appear correctly as an attachment in a new message, with appropriate quality, with a subject to the effect of "1 Great iPhoto".
    Now, however, regardless of the quality/size level I select, I get a small, pixellated, poor quality image attached with a non-sensical subject like cscp_W149.
    Any idea what's going on?
    Thanks

    you are doing it wrong and selecting the thumbnail
    THere are many correct ways to email photos with iPhoto - none of them involve going into the iPhoto library and mucking around (which can corrupt your library and cause you to lose data)
    The easiest way is to select the photo(s) in iPhoto and click on the mail icon in the toolbar - if it is not there go to the view window and under the shoe in toolbar command check mail
    THere are other ways discussed by Terence Devlin in his post in this thread - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1371662&tstart=15
    LN

  • Poor image quality when displaying OLE Word object in PDF

    MS Word 2007 OLE object in Crystal Reports XII R2 designer...looks OK in designer.  When we export to PDF, the image quality has been degraded significantly.  Anybody had this issue before?  tried replacing usp10.dll with one found in CommonFiles folder, that did not help.

    Hi Mark,
    See if this [kbase |http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333233313333333633383336%7D.do] - SAP Note 1213686 - Certain objects do not appear clearly when exporting to PDF/RTF/Word formats - article resolves the issue. It's for CR 9 so you'll have to browse to the CR XI registry structure.
    Otherwise try all of the patches for CR XI R2:
    Keep your Keycode and then uninstall XI R2, unless you are on SP 4 then just apply SP 5 and 6:
    https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100011802732008E/crxir2_sp4_full_build.exe
    https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100013876392008E/crxir2win_sp5.exe
    https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100015859952009E/crxir2win_sp6.exe
    Thank you
    Don

  • Poor image quality when scanning coins with officejet pro 8600 plus

    I recently upgraded my printer from an HP 2210 to and HP officejet pro 8600 plus. image quality on coin scans is terrible.
    I have tried scanning both with the HP software and with windows 7 fax and scan software
    I have saved images as BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF
    I have used resolutions from 300 dpi to 1200 DPI
    All give me similar unacceptable results.
    Images are better when scanned flat on the scanner than when in slabbed holders, and from this I am guessing that the plastic is somehow interfering wiht the scan. Either that, or there is a very shallow depth of field so that even moving the coin a few mm away from the glass moves it out of focus. But even a raw coin placed directly on the glass has significantly worse image quality than the old 2100. 
    The first image is  a coin scanned with the old 2100. The second has been scanned in a similar slab by the  8600

    Hi terry_renee,
    Welcome to the HP Forums! I am happy to help you with this scanning issue! I did a test with an HP Officejet 8600, at 1200 dpi, and no plastic covering. Just the quarter on the glass, and we cropped it to the quarter. This is the result.
    I have a few questions for you:
    What Operating System are you using for scanning? Windows or Mac? What version?
    What scanning software are you using?
    Are you scanning from the computer, or the printer's control panel? 
    Hope to hear back from you, and have a great day!
    RnRMusicMan
    I work on behalf of HP
    Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
    Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" to say “Thanks” for helping!

  • Poor image quality when importing SWF

    I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added more
    images the SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
    used a main page to import the smaller SWF files into a target.
    However, I found that all my clean crisp images become dull when
    imported but still look sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all
    the JPEG settings and push them up but still with no luck. Does
    anybody have any insight to why this is happening?

    Hello micsaint111111111111,
    The reason they look more blurry than in the original swf is
    that you are
    dealing with dual compression from the original swf AND the
    swf you are loading
    the images into.
    The easiest/best way to import your jpgs would be using
    LoadMovie to load
    the actual jpg files. That keeps all the jpgs separate so
    your swf file will
    be tiny. Plus the quality will be the same as the original
    jpg.
    That said- have you gone into your swfs and changed the
    default image quality
    on each of the images to 90 or 100? You do that in your
    library by right-clicking
    on the actual images and then going to Properties and
    unchecking "Use document
    default quality". That is one issue that a lot of people seem
    to miss and
    it might help if you don't want to recode your Flash with the
    LoadMovie method.
    Jesse H.
    Adobe Community Expert
    My site:
    http://www.jharding.com
    Free Blog Radio:
    http://www.tornadostream.com
    > I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added
    more images the
    > SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
    used a main page
    > to import the smaller SWF files into a target. However,
    I found that
    > all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but
    still look
    > sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG
    settings and
    > push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have
    any insight to
    > why this is happening?
    >

  • Poor image quality when played from dvd just burned

    I exported a FCP file from FCP using Compressor using several variations: uncompressed, compressed MPEG2 etc... brought the file into DVDSP and burned it to a DVD. when i play it from the dvd on my computer monitor it has these terrible lines and there are dropped frames occassionally. It doesnt look that way when I play it directly from DVDSP or from FCP only from the dvd. What is the problem here and how do I get a dvd whose quality matches the original?

    All video brought into DVDSP for authoring is converted to the same format for DVDs, MPEG2.
    Your "terrible lines" are probably interlacing artifacts. Look up interlacing in the manual. they always look worse on a computer monitor since that's a progressive display.
    Stuttering can be caused by tons of oddball glitches, no way ot even start guessing from where I'm sitting.
    but the whole process of going form FCP to DVDSP successfully is clearly and exhaustively explained in about 100 pages of the manuals and, yes, it really can be that complicated.
    bogiesan

  • Poor image quality when displaying OLE Word doc stored in BLOB

    Hello,
    I am migrating some CR Reports from VB6 to VB.NET 2008.
    The reports retrieves Word documents that is stored in BLOB column on SQL Server 2005.
    If CR.NET (same behaviour with 2005 and 2008 versions) renders the word document, the quality is really bad. Looks like an ugly moire effect. The characters below 8pt font size are hardly readable.  I have already set the option "use full color-depth" in the report options.
    If the same word doc is rendered with CR that's included in VB6, it shows a clear and sharp output - the same as displayed in word.
    Where is the difference in handling Word OLE between those two CR versions?
    Is there anything I can do to improve the quality with CR.NET?
    Regards,
    Stefan

    Hello, Stefan;
    Is this a Windows or Web application?
    Visual Basic 6.0 shipped with Crystal Reports 4.6 Visual Studio .NET 2005 ships with Crystal Reports 10.2 and VS .NET 2008 with version 10.5.
    The Crystal Reports application was rewritten in versions 5.0 and  9.0 and a great many changes were made - among them different options for including OLE Objects. See the [Note 1218374|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_erq/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes.do] for useful new functionality. I tested a report with a linked Word document and it viewed well through Visual Studio .NET 2008.
    Is it possible support for the  the Word format as a BLOB field in MS SQL Server has changed over time. What method is used to create the document as a BLOB field?
    Are you using the bundled version included with Visual Studio .NET? In the article recommending the property 'Retain Original Image Color Depth', there is a note:
    Note: This option only functions with the full version of Crystal Reports 9 or 10. This option does not function with the .NET Report Designer.
    Originally the issue was fixed but only in a full versions of Crystal Reports Developer, not in the versions bundled with Visual Studio .NET.
    I tested with a linked Word document and see some degradation when there is an image in the Word Document but not in the text itself.
    Elaine

  • Poor image quality when posted on the web

    Hi,
    When posting my iWeb pages on the web, the images look very poor compared to iWeb. When importing images to iWeb the image size is around 240 kb and when downloading the same image from the web after posting the image size is reduced to 52 kb and with a clear difference in quality. Why is that?
    For info, my Optimize setting is set to OFF

    Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
    TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
    I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
    Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

  • Poor image quality when viewing PDFs in Digital Editions

    I recently bought a digital copy of a book in the .acsm file format.  The site I bought it from recommended using Digital Editions.  I am on a mac, OS X 10.6.3.  When viewing this book, there are various screen shots that are essentially illegible in the single or double page format.  If I use the zoom feature they become more legible but still of low quality.  At first I thought it was the ebook I bought but I think it's Digital Editions, actually.  As a test I opened a plain 'ol PDF in Preview that had some screenshots in it - and those looked good.  Viewing the same PDF in Digital Editions though, the images were again of low quality.
    Digital Editions doesn't seem to have preferences (like most OS X apps) that might allow me to tweak this.  Is there something that can be changed in terms of settings to make the images clearer?
    Also, as an aside, Digital Editions on the Mac seems to have some delay when I try to copy things from the text.   I have to hold the command + c keys longer than I would otherwise in order to get the highlighted text to be copied.

    In iTunes with you iPod connected select the Photos tab and check *Include full-resolution photos* and re-sync.

  • Poor Image Quality when printing in Pages

    I created small (150 x 100 pixel at 72 dpi) images for printing on a one-page flyer in Pages. I dragged and dropped them into place, and things look great on the monitor. But when I print (using a Canon MX310) all-in-one, the images look bad - they are not looking crisp and sharp like they should. I have done everything on my printer settings I can - setting it to FINE quality, photo paper, etc. but they still look bad. Any ideas? I had tried this same thing in InDesign but there I got definitely jagged images on output. The images are TIFFs. I tried a different Canon ip3500 desktop printer, but to no avail.

    You need +at least+ 200dpi.
    300dpi is recommended to get fine detail.
    The size of the image has nothing to do with it, it is how many pixels you have per inch on the page.
    Obviously 72dpi has chunky pixels that you can see with your naked eye.
    The other thing is where did you get the images from? If they came from the Web then they are probably highly compressed and have compression artifacts which are painfully obvious when printing.
    Just changing formats is not going to do anything. What's that they say about a sow's ear…?
    Peter

  • Poor image quality when exporting a report to Word

    Hi,
    We are developing an application where users can download exported Word 2003 or PDF documents generated by Crystal Reports. The problem is that when the format type in the export options is set to Word for Windows the quality of the images in the document degrades immensely. The PDF images are looking fine though.
    Literally, the only difference between the two exports is that only one of these lines executes depending on what the user selects when exporting the report.
    crxReport.ExportOptions.FormatType = CRAXDRT.CRExportFormatType.crEFTPortableDocFormat;
    crxReport.ExportOptions.FormatType = CRAXDRT.CRExportFormatType.crEFTWordForWindows;
    I am using Crystal Reports 10.0. Upgrading to Service Pack 6 did not seem to solve the problem. This service pack resolves a similar problem that occurs with PDFs but it's Word documents we're having trouble with. The project we are working on is a .NET 1.1 project and it is hosted in a machine running Windows 2003 Standard Edition with Service Pack 2.
    Any help is greatly appreciated
    L.

    Hello Logan:
    See if the directions in [this|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_erq/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes.do] note help.
    [This|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_erq/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes.do] note is not quite what you'd look for, but it may be worth considering to see if it helps.
    Other than that, as Ido recommended, despite the difficulties of the number of parameters, see if exporting from the CR designer is any different. If it is not, we're fighting a lost battle. Alternatively, you could create a new report in the CR designer, no database connection needed. Insert an image, export.
    Ludek

Maybe you are looking for