[MPlayer-users] Upscaling

[Nico Sabbi]

Tony Houghton wrote:

>I've got a DVD which is supposed to be widescreen, but it's really 4:3
>with letterboxing. I would like to try to convert it to proper 16:9 by
>upscaling, which could probably give a better appearance than "zoom" on
>my TV. I've heard that some DVD players have a facility to upscale
>ordinary DVDs for HDTV and that they do a very good job, so I wondered
>whether mencoder could do as good a job on a smaller scale. The trouble
>is there are lots of options for the scale filter and not much
>documentation for them, so can anyone give me any tips on how to get the
>best quality possible? Eg are any of the alternatives for -sws better
>than the default bicubic? Speed of conversion isn't really an issue.
>
>  
>
man mplayer
/scale=

There's also some informations about scalers in DOCS/tech