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<blockquote data-quote="bugmenot" data-source="post: 747880" data-attributes="member: 29078"><p><strong>MediaPortal Version</strong>: 1.1.30</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Skin</strong>: X Factor</p><p><strong>Windows Version</strong>: 7 64 bit</p><p><strong>CPU Type</strong>: Intel Core i7 960</p><p><strong>Memory</strong>: 9GB</p><p><strong>Video Card</strong>: NVIDIA GTX 460</p><p><strong>Video Card Driver</strong>: 270.61</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Video Codec</strong>: ffdshow</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Audio Codec</strong>: ffdshow</p><p><strong>h.264 Video Codec</strong>: ffdshow</p><p><strong>TV</strong>: Panasonic Viera full HD plasma</p><p><strong>TV - HTPC Connection</strong>: HDMI</p><p></p><p>Hey guys. I had until recently been using my PS3 for watching videos on my TV, but it wasen't able to handle MKVs very well, so I looked it something that would handle MKVs natively. This is when I discovered MediaPortal (great program BTW!)! </p><p></p><p>I've been using it for a week or so now, and I've noticed that SD videos don't look as good as they did when I was watching on my PS3, in animated content, the black outlines look very jaggy. I suspect that the PS3 is applying some kind of upscaling to SD videos to make them look better. I would like MediaPortal to do something similar. If I had to be specific, I guess the jagged black outlines are what bothers me, I'd like to smooth them out. Not expecting the image to look like native full HD or a professional SD Blu-ray upscale, but an improvement of some sort would be nice. BUT! Here's the catch: I want it to leave 1920x1080 videos alone! </p><p></p><p>I've read the guide on post-processing (<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Postprocessing" target="_blank">Postprocessing Guide - MediaPortal Wiki</a>), and tried out just the "resize" filter, since it seems to be the only filter that has the option of not taking effect unless the video is below 1920x1080. But I can't see much of a difference when I play a SD video in MediaPortal. I tried setting the settings in "resize" to ridiculous settings, hoping that I should see SOME kind of difference. I saw none. So I suspect that the filter is not being applied for some reason. I've tried setting this in MP's post-processing version of ffdshow like in the guide, as well as normal ffdshow that runs Windows. </p><p></p><p>Does anyone know where I'm going wrong?</p><p></p><p>*EDIT* Silly me, I had my greater than and less than around the wrong way. Not to mention I hadn't changed "or" to "and". So essentially, it was currently set to only resize if the video was BIGGER than 1920 or 1080, which in the case of the former, wasn't gonna happen, and in the latter, ignores SD content, the very content I wanted upscaled <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> I got my black outlines nice and smooth now, though if someone can suggest a way of getting my SD content to rival professionally-produced SD to HD upscales, the kind you see in an upscaled Blu-ray, that would be awesome!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bugmenot, post: 747880, member: 29078"] [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 1.1.30 [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: X Factor [b]Windows Version[/b]: 7 64 bit [b]CPU Type[/b]: Intel Core i7 960 [b]Memory[/b]: 9GB [b]Video Card[/b]: NVIDIA GTX 460 [b]Video Card Driver[/b]: 270.61 [b]MPEG2 Video Codec[/b]: ffdshow [b]MPEG2 Audio Codec[/b]: ffdshow [b]h.264 Video Codec[/b]: ffdshow [b]TV[/b]: Panasonic Viera full HD plasma [b]TV - HTPC Connection[/b]: HDMI Hey guys. I had until recently been using my PS3 for watching videos on my TV, but it wasen't able to handle MKVs very well, so I looked it something that would handle MKVs natively. This is when I discovered MediaPortal (great program BTW!)! I've been using it for a week or so now, and I've noticed that SD videos don't look as good as they did when I was watching on my PS3, in animated content, the black outlines look very jaggy. I suspect that the PS3 is applying some kind of upscaling to SD videos to make them look better. I would like MediaPortal to do something similar. If I had to be specific, I guess the jagged black outlines are what bothers me, I'd like to smooth them out. Not expecting the image to look like native full HD or a professional SD Blu-ray upscale, but an improvement of some sort would be nice. BUT! Here's the catch: I want it to leave 1920x1080 videos alone! I've read the guide on post-processing ([url=http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Postprocessing]Postprocessing Guide - MediaPortal Wiki[/url]), and tried out just the "resize" filter, since it seems to be the only filter that has the option of not taking effect unless the video is below 1920x1080. But I can't see much of a difference when I play a SD video in MediaPortal. I tried setting the settings in "resize" to ridiculous settings, hoping that I should see SOME kind of difference. I saw none. So I suspect that the filter is not being applied for some reason. I've tried setting this in MP's post-processing version of ffdshow like in the guide, as well as normal ffdshow that runs Windows. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong? *EDIT* Silly me, I had my greater than and less than around the wrong way. Not to mention I hadn't changed "or" to "and". So essentially, it was currently set to only resize if the video was BIGGER than 1920 or 1080, which in the case of the former, wasn't gonna happen, and in the latter, ignores SD content, the very content I wanted upscaled :P I got my black outlines nice and smooth now, though if someone can suggest a way of getting my SD content to rival professionally-produced SD to HD upscales, the kind you see in an upscaled Blu-ray, that would be awesome! [/QUOTE]
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