[MPlayer-users] Re: How to sharpen the decoded images

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:24:20PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2005 23:29 schrieb Jan Knutar:
> > On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:59, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to do additional snapshots for -vf pp=de and -vf
> > > pp=ac? Besides that your comparison is very useful and comprehensive!
> >
> > pp=de is hb, vb and dr, according to the man page. There is such a
> > picture in the collection.
> 
> I did not know what filter the vbdbdr.png image belongs to. If it belongs 
> to pp=de then it would be nice to name it vbhbdr.png.
> 
> > Elsewhere I got comments that my choice of scene was rather poor :-)
> 
> There ar no bad scenes, only bad postprocessing filters. :-)
> I could never understand why somebody would recommend -vf spp [3-6] - imho 
> it looks wors than the original video.

For high quality vidoes that don't need postprocessing, yes. On the
other hand, try the clips at:

ftp://brightrain.aerifal.cx/pub/movies/tibet/soldater*

(before and after, roughly same bitrate. original is unwatchably bad
imo, fixed version is low quality but doesn't interfere with watching)

Rich