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Using VLC to upconvert DVDs.

Ramen NoodleRamen Noodle whoa, god has a picture of me!Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I know there's probably a way to get VLC to upscale to make DVDs look better. How would you go about doing that, and if VLC can't do it, what other (free) programs could?

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  • FirstComradeStalinFirstComradeStalin Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Is this possible simply by reencoding it or something? It doesn't seem like you could do it.

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  • ffordefforde Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Are you talking about a situation where you have your computer hooked up to an HDTV? In that case if your computer resolution is higher than 854x480 (widescreen 480p) than your video card is upscaling the picture automatically, regardless of which player you use. All upscaling really means is stretching a lower resolution video to a higher resolution. If you want additional processing some mpeg2 decoders have additional options you can set. What you would be looking for would be post processing effects.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    fforde wrote: »
    Are you talking about a situation where you have your computer hooked up to an HDTV? In that case if your computer resolution is higher than 854x480 (widescreen 480p) than your video card is upscaling the picture automatically, regardless of which player you use. All upscaling really means is stretching a lower resolution video to a higher resolution. If you want additional processing some mpeg2 decoders have additional options you can set. What you would be looking for would be post processing effects.

    Not entirely true. You blow up the window to fit an HDTV you're just stretching the same pixels to fit the new size. VLC and other good programs do a very good job of this but it's not truly HD. To get real HD you either need a hardware upconverter(there's plenty of consumer level DVD players with this these days). Or you need to use a program like Video Enhancer to rip and re-encode the video at a new resolution. I've never used it but it apparently does a good job but takes insane amounts of rendering time. I'm not aware of any internal DVD players for computers that up convert on their own. One of the reasons I have a very expensive video capture card at work is the ability to do HD conversions in real-time.

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  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I don't think you will be able to use VLC to do this, have you tried WinDVD or PowerDVD plus setting your monitor resolution to max?, you would need to configure your video card to 32 bit colors quality, there also some tweaks you could try, depending upon your video card.

    However, if the content is crap, crap you will get.

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  • Ramen NoodleRamen Noodle whoa, god has a picture of me! Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I figured out how to do it with Media Player Classic and ffdshow. Thanks anyways.

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