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PurpleMan
30th May 2007, 15:09
Hello.

I currently have my 720p HDTV connected using a DVI-HDMI cable to my PC (and it's working great with 1:1 pixel mapping, so it's BEAUTIFUL).

I use the PC as my DVD player with PowerDVD and WinDVD. I found that the DVD image displayed the high-res HDTV is very soft (unsharp, blurry).

Is there any player that will perform upscale with some post-proccessing to produce a crisper image? Obviously I don't expect to restore lost details, but at least to make edges a bit sharper and and overall less-soft look to it.

I know I can use ffdshow, but I really don't feel like messing with the settings each time I want to play a movie. Are there any players that can achieve such a thing 'automatically' or using presets?

Thanks in advance!
Leak
31st May 2007, 09:07
I know I can use ffdshow, but I really don't feel like messing with the settings each time I want to play a movie. Are there any players that can achieve such a thing 'automatically' or using presets?
Well, if you're going to use presets in a player app why not use ffdshow's presets instead?

Set it up once, store it as a preset, the load it if neccessary.
PurpleMan
31st May 2007, 15:04
Because it's hard to find settings that works well optimized for all titles. I wouldn't know what to set to make it optimal.
Leak
1st June 2007, 13:38
Because it's hard to find settings that works well optimized for all titles. I wouldn't know what to set to make it optimal.
So what makes you think you can automate all or any of the stuff you ask for in your first post? Especially so that it works correct 100% of the time? :confused:

np: Secede - Vega Libre: The Citadel (Vega Libre)
foxyshadis
2nd June 2007, 07:00
If you have a halfway decent PC, see Jeremy Duncan's realtime thread in the avisynth forum for suggestions on good ways to sharpen up DVDs. Save it as a preset that'll get applied to anything under 500px high. Have a totally blank preset for everything else.

As for different movies needing different things, well, that's the way life goes, and it takes more CPU time to analyse the needs of the movie than to actually apply it, usually way beyond the capabilities of the computer (though some avisynth scripts have some degree of self-tuning).