ffdshow and VLC

[Leviathan]

Hello, I was reading up and it appears that you can acheive a lot more detail out of your DVDs by upscaling them to doube their size using ffdshow filters. I was wondering if VLC supported ffdshow (sorry couldn't find it here in the forums)
Thanks!

[fkuehne]

ffdshow is a spin-off of the ffmpeg-library, which is used by VLC, so this functionality should be available.

Anyway, I doubt that you get more details by adding filters, since they cannot generate pixels which aren't stored on the DVD. Perhaps, you are talking about so-called deinterlace-filters, which can be applied to movies to remove compression artefacts and smooth the image a bit, so it looks better indeed. These filters are available in VLC's Video-menu.

[The DJ]

Or post processing.

[Kador]

The ffdshow filters cannot invent data, but they can certainly greatly improve image quality. ffdshow offers filters like :
- good lancoz resize
- sharpening
- noise reduction, ...