[MPlayer-users] Upconverting?

[Grant]

> > I've read that some consumer DVD players can "upconvert" the
> > resolution of DVDs to HD resolutions, and people are reporting that
> > this is improving the picure quality.  Can mplayer do that?
>
> It depends on what exactly are you trying to get. "improving picture
> quality" is such a vague phrase.. For example, I'm sure that some of
> mplayer's filters can improve picture quality even more.
>
> To take a wild guess, these players are using some kind of sharpening
> upscaling filter.  You can do that with mplayer, but scaling to HD
> resolution will eat a lot of cpu power. See -sws option and its
> suboptions for that.
>
> On the other hand, you can just use unsharp filter without upscaling.
> Results won't be that nice, but still okay usually.
>
> If you want something else, then try explaining what kind of improvement
> are you waiting for. I can't think of other general "quality
> improvement" methods that most of people would like other than making
> picture sharper and making colors more bright and vivid, but the latter
> has nothing to do with scaling and resolution.

Hello Vladimir!  I'm just trying to determine if a good consumer DVD
player will yield a better picture on a 1366x768 LCD screen than
mplayer.  What do you think?

- Grant