[MPlayer-users] Upconverting?

[The Wanderer]

Grant wrote:

>>> MPlayer still lacks "fairies" support to invent the pixels in
>>> between, 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?

Uhh...

In case you're actually being serious: that was sarcasm.

The whole point of the "fairies" bit was to emphasize that "to do what
you're asking for would require magic". (Or at least a reasonable
facsimile.)

(Since I've been on another run of mistaken posts lately in various
fora, I've just checked to be sure I haven't accidentally slipped into a
parallel universe where such an option *does* exist; latest SVN
configure does not contain the string "fairies".)

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       The Wanderer

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