[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: some requests for michael

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:44:52PM +0100, Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:56:47PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Can we fix the software scaler not to use global settings, but instead
> > make everything per-instance? I need something like the following for
> > the deinterlacing work I'm doing (see my thread on -users):
> > 
> > -vop scale=400:300,il=ic,scale,il=dc -ssf cgb=0.8
> > 
> > Where the leftmost scale is just to change image size to fix aspect,
> > and the rightmost is to apply a strong gaussian blur to the chroma
> > channels to fix some really broken interlacing artifacts. Right now I
> > can only specify -ssf cgb=0.8 globally! But I don't want to apply the
> > blur a second time or it'll damage the quality even more!
> ...
> 
> Use the unsharp filter.

The unsharp filter is not at all what I need. It won't smooth out a
high frequency pattern like this _-_-_-, which is what you get with
interlacing. :(

Rich