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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 522666" data-attributes="member: 83973">Basically, you don't need to do anything - MP+Windows will automatically up-scale/down-scale full-screen video to fit on the screen, irrespective of the actual screen resolution. The scaling is actually performed by the video card hardware, so the quality of it is down (in your case) to nVidia, but I'm quite happy with what my 9500GT achieves - viewed on a 37&quot; 1920 x 1080 LCD at 3-4m distance.People using FFDShow etc to re-scale video before it hits the video card may be achieving slightly better quality, but it's at a big cost in CPU power - especially if it's from interlaced material since it has to be de-interlaced first (and FFDShow software de-interlacers are generally not as good as the best ATi/nVidia hardware de-interlacing...)To make use of the PureVideo hardware acceleration you just need to use video codecs that support DXVA - the PowerDVD MPEG-2 and H.264 codecs are some of the most popular.Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 522666, member: 83973"] Basically, you don't need to do anything - MP+Windows will automatically up-scale/down-scale full-screen video to fit on the screen, irrespective of the actual screen resolution. The scaling is actually performed by the video card hardware, so the quality of it is down (in your case) to nVidia, but I'm quite happy with what my 9500GT achieves - viewed on a 37" 1920 x 1080 LCD at 3-4m distance. People using FFDShow etc to re-scale video before it hits the video card may be achieving slightly better quality, but it's at a big cost in CPU power - especially if it's from interlaced material since it has to be de-interlaced first (and FFDShow software de-interlacers are generally not as good as the best ATi/nVidia hardware de-interlacing...) To make use of the PureVideo hardware acceleration you just need to use video codecs that support DXVA - the PowerDVD MPEG-2 and H.264 codecs are some of the most popular. Tony [/QUOTE]

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