[MPlayer-users] Upconverting?

[Grant]

> GP> MPlayer still lacks "fairies" support to invent the pixels in between,
> GP> needed to get a truly HD picture.
>
> Just get latest SVN and recompile with:
>
> --enable-fairies
>
> Then try adding -vf fscale=1600:1200 (or any other resolution you
> might desire) to your command line.

Gentoo's latest mplayer ebuild is apparently an SVN snapshot from
08/10/2006 and doesn't seem to include a fairies USE flag for
compilation.  Was fairies support added after that date, or is the
ebuild missing a USE flag?

media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre20060810 [1.0_pre8] USE="X alsa dvd gif gtk
jpeg mad mmx mmxext opengl png real rtc sdl sse sse2 truetype unicode
win32codecs xv -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext -aac -aalib (-altivec) -amr%
-arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags
-debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvdread -enca% -encode -esd
-fbcon -ggi -iconv% -ipv6 -jack -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd
-lzo -matrox -musepack -nas -openal -oss -samba -speex (-svga) -tga
-theora -v4l -v4l2 -vorbis -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xmms -xvid -xvmc
(-i8x0%) (-nvidia%)"

- Grant