Most of us who want large, uncompressed images displayed in Profiler simply eschew the Edit Covers screen. If you simply copy the image that you want to the appropriate name in the correct directory, then it's all good.

Admittedly, the names can be a bit confusing for non-US- types due to the locale part of the name, but for US-locale profiles, the name is just the UPC + "f.jpg" for the front cover, and the UPC + "b.jpg" for the back cover.

The files go into
"\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\DVD Profiler\Databases\Defaut\IMAGES"
assuming that you are using the default database location.

Profiler does not appear to fiddle with images in this directory; it seems to muck with them as it is putting them there initially ...

After doing this, you will need to rebuild the thumbnails (select thumbnail view, right-click the thumbnail selector icon for a context menu that lets you rebuild thumbnails), but this does not change the main images.

The reason why I recommended this is for two reasons.

1. Primarily for image contribution.  I spend way too much time getting covers to the max quality without going over the limits but I have to manually determine the correct file name and manually rename the images to match the one DVDP uses and manually copy them into the image directory.
2. So I don't have to do the manual parts in #1 above.

If you want to use images that are WAY above that for your own local use, do what it normally does.

I took an image that was within the contribution thresholds and imported it using the File -> Open menu item.  When I closed the edit screen, the cover image was 356k, way above the contribution file size limits.

Come to think of it, if the user specifies a JPeg image file, the best thing is to copy the file instead of resaving it.  By the very nature of the JPeg format, the saved version is no longer the same as the file they selected.  Unless the user changed the default save quality, it'll always be a lower quality copy.

Yes it is , tweeter, I should have typed 800 wide..<slaps self>

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I don't notice any degrade either but I have my DVDP compression ratio set to max quality - but that really affects the file size.

That's the nature of the beast with the JPeg compression routines.

Quoting DJ Doena:

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I can understand that an picture gets larger if you save it to another file format - like BMP - because it stores the data in another way, but the same file type?

JPEG has variable quality settings. The higher the setting the better the quality and the larger the file. If you take a low quality image and resave it at higher quality it will get bigger, but it will not look any better (garbage in, garbage out) but if you take a high quality image and save at a lower quality it will get smaller but look worse.

When you paste an image into DVD Profiler it resaves it. If it ends up over the size limit it will be re-compressed again when you upload it. The result is an image in the online database that looks worse then your original image.

MPG2 on DVDs works the same way, the more you put on a DVD the more you have to compress it. You can put 4 hours of video on a single layer disk but it's not going to look to good!