[mythtv] ffmpeg SWSCALE!

[Steven Adeff]

On 8/30/06, Mark Buechler <mark.buechler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Richard Dale <richard at interlink.com.au> wrote:
> > > In talking with Bryan Mayland about his experiements with software
> > > scaling, he led me to the news that ffmpeg has implemented swscale in
> > > ffmpeg that should allow for MythTV to easily adopt scaling.
> > ...
> > > This would be great for those that wish to scale DVD's and SD
> > > recordings to 720p/1080p for use on HDTV's.
> >
> > Doesn't MythTV currently scale anyway?  Or does this do a better job than
> > current?
> >
> > Eg.  If I playback a 720x576p recording, and my native screen resolution
> is
> > 1365x768 output via DVI, it scales the picture up to the native resolution
> > automatically.
> >
> > Or is this scaling thing different?
>
> He's talking about software scaling. Myth uses hardware scaling now via Xv
> or VxMC. Software scaling has been shown to improve image quality.

Significantly in fact, and is especially useful for those wanting to
scale DVD/SDTV to 720p or 1080p.


-- 
Steve
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