dotnet drawing api: What are ImageCodecInfo classes? Can tehy make your images (gif, jpeg, etc.)
better or why to use them?

I made a (another) screen capture program and notice that captures
could be better. Could ImageCodecInfo class make screen capture picture
better?

Thanks for any info!

Cheers!

The image codec info classes represent the various image codecs available to
the GDI+ image encoders. They are sealed classes, cannot be derived from,
cannot be expanded or added to in any way. In fact, you just gets what you
sees.

They are generally only used to find a specific codec for saving an image.
Loading is done transparently by the framework and the correct codec is
detected and loaded.

They have no bearing upon screen image quality.

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