[MPlayer-users] Pixelated video when UpScaled

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 7 Sep 2012, at 06:56, Mac Smith <macsmith.us at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the best way to upscale a SD video to 1080P. I am using -vo vdpau for hardware acceleration and -y 1080 -x 1920 to upscale it. But the video gets pixelated, i there some way I can make it better and less pixelated. 

For the hardware decoding with VDPAU case, please read up on and try the -vo vdpau:hqscaling option.
If that does not work, you could just skip the hardware decoding (for SD it should be fast enough without) and use a combination of video filters and -vo gl:lscale for example.