Good method to playback anime?

[molitar]

Well just finally updated my computer and video card to a powerful enough system to look at using avisynth for my anime playback needs but...

Is the BlindDeHalo3_mt2.avs still a good avisynth script to use for Anime at this time? Or something else? Also when I try to use the avisynth script in ffdshow it always gives me a...

[Ranguvar]

I recommend DeHalo_alpha()...

Avoid using the term 'best'.

It gives you a what?

[molitar]

Thanks will do a search for it now :)

Ok I did a search and I can't seem to find where to get DeHalo_alpha() and a script for it.

[Didée]

Ok I did a search and I can't seem to find where to get DeHalo_alpha() and a script for it.
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*First* hit of that search: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=738264&highlight=dehalo_alpha#post738264


That wasn't difficult, was it? ;)

[molitar]

I been to that thread. I actually see no link for the actual download of dehalo_alpha at all. It talks all about it and most of the scripts are for general encoding so they will be slow not a general playback when just playing back say an anime dvd.

On another site that I have lost now their was a general script that was improved image quality but still quite playable by not using too many extremes designed for playback and not encoding purposes. But first problem is finding this Dehalo_Alpha() for actual download.

[Comatose]

function DeHalo_alpha(clip clp, float "rx", float "ry", float "darkstr", float "brightstr", float "lowsens", float "highsens", float "ss")
{
rx = default( rx, 2.0 )
ry = default( ry, 2.0 )
darkstr = default( darkstr, 1.0 )
brightstr = default( brightstr, 1.0 )
lowsens = default( lowsens, 50 )
highsens = default( highsens, 50 )
ss = default( ss, 1.5 )

LOS = string(lowsens)
HIS = string(highsens/100.0)
DRK = string(darkstr)
BRT = string(brightstr)
ox = clp.width()
oy = clp.height()
uv = 1
uv2 = (uv==3) ? 3 : 2

halos = clp.bicubicresize(m4(ox/rx),m4(oy/ry)).bicubicresize(ox,oy,1,0)
are = yv12lutxy(clp.expand(U=uv,V=uv),clp.inpand(U=uv,V=uv),"x y -","x y -","x y -",U=uv,V=uv)
ugly = yv12lutxy(halos.expand(U=uv,V=uv),halos.inpand(U=uv,V=uv),"x y -","x y -","x y -",U=uv,V=uv)
so = yv12lutxy( ugly, are, "y x - y 0.001 + / 255 * "+LOS+" - y 256 + 512 / "+HIS+" + *" )
lets = maskedmerge(halos,clp,so,U=uv,V=uv)
remove = (ss==1.0) ? clp.repair(lets,1,0)
\ : clp.lanczosresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss))
\ .logic(lets.expand(U=uv,V=uv).bicubicresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss)),"min",U=uv2,V=uv2)
\ .logic(lets.inpand(U=uv,V=uv).bicubicresize(m4(ox*ss),m4(oy*ss)),"max",U=uv2,V=uv2)
\ .lanczosresize(ox,oy)
them = yv12lutxy(clp,remove,"x y < x x y - "+DRK+" * - x x y - "+BRT+" * - ?",U=2,V=2)

return( them )
}

function m4(float x) {return(x<16?16:int(round(x/4.0)*4))}

Is what I have. It requires MaskTools v1.x

[Didée]

Finding the script(s) shouldn't be the problem (btw, the MT2 version (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=777956#post777956) is faster) ... could be a case of PEBCAK.

[molitar]

Well the mt_script is the only one I got working for me at all but now I got another question for you.

Should I use resizing in ffdshow? My new screen resolution for my monitor is 1680x1080 which really makes you notice artifacts and such that I never noticed on my old CRT 1024x768 resolution but the DeHalo_alpha() script helps quite a bit but will resizing help and if so which type of resizing should I use? Secondly should I still use features like Post Processing or just the script?

[TheRyuu]

Dehalo_Alpha wins.
Just make sure to set the darkstr low.

Like:
darkstr=0.2-0.4 and brightstr=0.8-1.0

If your darkstr is too high you DESTROY lines.