WMP and ffdshow for resize ?

[Peuj]

Hi,

I'm trying to watch some movies from a website (it's asx links with wmv files) and I need a license to watch them.
Usually I use MPC as player but because of the license I have to use WMP to watch these files (maybe I miss something but...).

My problem, excepted that I have to use WMP, is that the size of the video is really "little" and when I switch in fullscreen the image is really to "dirty" so I would like to try something like "Resize" with ffdshow but I cannot enabled it with WMP.

Ok, I hope it's clear. What I would like to know it's:

1 - Is there a way to watch these movies with MPC (it's not that I don't like WMP but I prefer to use just one player)?
2 - How can I use ffdshow with WMP (if it's possible)?
3 - If I cannot use MPC or ffdshow, what can I do to increase the quality of the image in fullscreen ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

PS: I have already searched on the forum but I didn't find anything, maybe I don't know what to search...

Edit:
Sorry if it's not the good place to ask the question as I don't know if it's for ffdshow or Software players

[foxyshadis]

First, you have to plug ffdshow into the chain by setting it to decode raw video, which makes it work for everything. Then turn the resize filter on, set it to the size you like (1/2 to 2/3 of the screen resolution is a good cpu/resolution tradeoff for me), set the mode ot lanczos or spline, save and close everything and enjoy.

Another option is to turn on VMR9 or Haali's Renderer in MPC or Zoomplayer, which can use bicubic and look a lot better than the default bilinear enlarging.

But oddly, I thought current MPC could parse .asx, it can definitely read .wmv. Now if they're streaming files, no, MPC won't read those (you need Stream Down or something like it to save them to wmv first).

[Dark Eiri]

I'm using the AviSynth option on ffdshow, with Lanczos4Resize(1280,720) (I'm using 1280 x 1024, if the video is 4:3, I just set the AR with BSPlayer, and "voi la"). It's very sharp and produces the best quality for a resize, I believe.

[zambelli]

If using WMP, you won't be able to insert Ffdshow into the playback pipeline because WMP uses WM Format SDK for WMV playback, whereas FFdshow is a DirectShow component.

Once the license is acquired through WMP, are you able to play the video in DirectShow? I'm not saying it should work... I'm just curious myself.

[Peuj]

Thanks all for your replies.

First, you have to plug ffdshow into the chain by setting it to decode raw video, which makes it work for everything.

Yes the "Raw video" is always set to "all supported" but it doesn't work for WMP :-(

But oddly, I thought current MPC could parse .asx, it can definitely read .wmv. Now if they're streaming files, no, MPC won't read those (you need Stream Down or something like it to save them to wmv first).

Ok but even if I can download the wmv, can MPC read video which need license file to be play ? (I don't think but as I'm not sure I prefer to ask.)


If using WMP, you won't be able to insert Ffdshow into the playback pipeline because WMP uses WM Format SDK for WMV playback, whereas FFdshow is a DirectShow component.

OK as I thought :( even I didn't know why.

Once the license is acquired through WMP, are you able to play the video in DirectShow? I'm not saying it should work... I'm just curious myself.
What do you mean by "play the video in DirectShow" ? Playing the video with another player ?
I think I've already tried to play the videos from MPC once the license was acquired but it didn't work.

So there is nothing to do to resize the video from WMP ?