> To be honest: If you look at latest (flat-)TV sets and their way to > deinterlace and scale the picture, I would prefer to get this done by > software e.g. by using spline resize algorithms (see e.g. > http://audio.rightmark.org/lukin/graphics/resampling.htm) and advanced > deinterlacing options (see e.g. > http://home.knuut.de/MWieser_/vf_raw_ntv_8) known from xine and mplayer. Deinterlacing & scaling is much more than just "comb-effect defiltering". Additional crispness filtering needs to be applied. So far all software DVD players has failed on this. (Windows side) For more info see: www.hqv.com (Hollywood Quality Video) Benchmarking: http://www.hqv.com/benchmark.cfm - See difference of good and bad ones - My LCD TV's Faroudja beat all SW decoders on picture detail keeping - Yamaha cheap DVD player with scart & rgb - computer with monitor Of course you can ignore my comment because I haven't tested Mplayer as well as "MWieser", it is possible that Mplayer deinterlace with denoise etc. is better than Windows side (VLC, WinDVD, Nvidia purevideo decoders). > Unfortunately, those algorithms need processing power, processing power > is expensive, and this will make this hardware really expensive. And more noisier! (Or without noise even more expensive :) Regards, Jori
