[MPlayer-users] Upconverting?

[Alexander Roalter]

RC wrote:
> Yes and no.  It's really PC hardware (videocard with DVI) that's doing
> most of the work.
oh, but -vf scale=1920:1080 should give you a perfect 1080p-Video ;)
And it's all done in processor...

> 
> It's only if you have a progressive display that MPlayer's
> specific features matter.  In which case, it does very good IVTC, but
> the motion-adaptive deinterlacer is too slow and buggy to be useful
> right now (most idiot "experts" on home theatre sites lump those two
> together), though most people seem happy with the less-advanced
> deinterlacers MPlayer has available.
On real film material, a simple weave should be perfectly fine, so 
there's no need for more advanced features (I speak of PAL, the NTSC 
pulldown has its own pitfalls...)