DVD upscaled to 729p

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

Hi all you brilliant people (hehe, now that sucking up is done :) )

Could someone please help me find ways to optimise/better this script.

It upscales quite nicely and is really simple, but appears slightly blocky and edgy on my Samsung 42in LCD.

Its not meant to run through an encoder but allow me to watch my DVD's at a decent quality on the TV.

Many thanks in advance.

Here is the current script - i ripped the movie and ran it through dgindex, creating the D2V and AC3 files.


loadplugin( "..\mt_masktools-26.dll" )
loadplugin( "..\dgdecode.dll" )
LoadPlugin( "..\msharpen.dll" )
LoadPlugin( "..\undot.dll" )
LoadPlugin( "..\decomb.dll" )
LoadPlugin( "..\Convolution3d.dll")
LoadPlugin( "..\FluxSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin( "..\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll" )

mpeg2source( "C:\_\test.d2v" )
# Deinterlace NTSC source to 23.98
Telecide(order=1).Decimate()

Temporalsoften(3,5,5,mode=2,scenechange=10)
Convolution3d("moviehq")
FluxSmoothST(7,7)

Lanczos4Resize( 1280,688 )
addborders(0,16,0,16)

MSharpen(13,250,false,false,false)

[Inspector.Gadget]

Your HDTV probably does better upscaling than you can do in software, no?

[Blue_MiSfit]

Post a sample, so we can take a look at your source and make some suggestions.

When I upscale (or even work with any DVDs these days), I usually do the following:

1) IVTC if necessary
2) Kill mattes with a bit over overcropping (since there's usually crud on the edges)
3) MDegrain2
4) NNEDI to double the resolution in both directions
5) Resize to the correct aspect ratio
6) LSFMod
7) GrainFactory3

~MiSfit

[Dark Shikari]

Your HDTV probably does better upscaling than you can do in software, no?I don't know a TV that does NNEDI, do you? ;)

[lych_necross]

@ Blue_MiSfit,

Do you do all of that on the fly or only when encoding?

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

@Inspector.Gadget - Running my PC through the TV and the DVD upscaling is terrible, even that bad script runs better :)

DVD1
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a0524fbb5416.jpg
UpScaled1
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a052520b5259.jpg

DVD2
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a052539888e4.jpg
UpScaled2
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a05254d6bba0.jpg

DVD3
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a05255fcf6a6.jpg
UpScaled3
http://top-cp.co.za/imup/top/top4a05257a2344a.jpg

As request some screenshots - the main problem is the bloody noise in scenes that have the same color in big areas - like a solid wall or something

[Blue_MiSfit]

@lych_necross:

LOL!!

I wish I could do NNEDI and MDegrain in real-time :)

[Nightshiver]

He didn't request screenshots. He requested a VIDEO sample.

[SeeMoreDigital]

What's 729p?

[shoopdabloop]

Isn't Spline64 usually better than Lanczos?

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

@Nightshiver
Whoops sorry my bad :scared:
Will sort it out this evening.

[10L23r]

Isn't Spline64 usually better than Lanczos?

no lanczos is somewhat sharper, but more ringing