vidkid Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Hi just wanted to pose a query.. if I'm using my HTPC with it's inbuilt DVD Player/Rcrdr & Geforce 6600LE video card with relevant drivers and with this playing back a normal DVD, when I have my LCD panel attached via DVI > HDMI, isn't a form of upscaling being done? ..given I can set the driver under XP to output 720P or 1080i ? then the LCD is left to portray the picture in it's native format? in my case 1360x768. reason I'm asking is do I really need an upscaling DVD player if this is the case? input appreciated Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bitey Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Yep your upscaling using the video card's hardware (generally fairly poor :-) Your video card will upscale to the desktop resolution. If your desktop resolution isnt the exact native resolution of your display, then your display will take the scaled image and scale it to the appropriate native resoution (generally bad). Ideally you want to feed your display a video image thats the same resolution as the display (that way the display doesnt scale it - displays are **** at scaling (in general)). Better still, you can use some software to scale the image (good) to the native resolution of the display (good) so neither the display, nor your video card has to scale it (good). Cheers, Bitey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidkid Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 OK good.. save meself some $$$ then.. did have my eye on the Pioneer 696AV but happy with saving some $$ sorry about the extra post! just clicked submit and the session seed to hang, clicked stop on the browser then submit again.. oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauld Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Once you get the display working with 1:1 pixel mapping you should think about using ffdshow to do the scaling. There are excellent results to be had - try a google search as there is plenty of help out there on this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidkid Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 Thanks Paul.. have you tried it yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwd Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Once you get the display working with 1:1 pixel mapping you should think about using ffdshow to do the scaling. There are excellent results to be had - try a google search as there is plenty of help out there on this topic. Yes agree with that, The latest versions available from free-codecs.com work a treat and not too CPU intensive. Just get the correct version for your CPU. I am getting great results on a Core 2 Duo laptop. ( Media Player Classic another free gem ). I think the AVS forums have lots of threads dedicated to getting set up and user settings. It is a tinkerers delight but the results can be quite stunning with good material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsmith Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Has anyone tried the ffdshow version from http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Nice info guys - was going to try this myself - nice to have some tips on software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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