wow WMP is a cheater :) messes with your video

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:31 pm

You can't Anti-alias something for which you don't have a higher res picture, or it's a vector-based render. All it is is a different resizing algorithm.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:37 pm

danielwang wrote:There's othser resize algorithms than nearest neighbor, btw.

Some Zancos resize or something. I think it's in AVI-Synth.

Bi-linier, Bi-cubic, Lanczos3... they all do the same thing, just better jobs then the other. They resize the image smoothly, while it does blur it, it's better then the ugly nearest neigbour resize method. That is ALL you are bitching about. The fact that WMP is bluring things as they get scaled up, instead of the arcane method of nearest neigbour. That's ALL. It's not 'Anti-aliasing' It's not some sharpening filter.

And, if you would fucking LOOK at your own screen shots, you're 'work copy' of video there was at 2024kbps, most 'Divx Movie Bootlegs' are encoded at around 1000kbps excluding the audio. So YEAH, it looks about twice as good as most divx. It is set to rougly twice the bitrate, so it makes COMPLETE FUCKING SENSE!

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:40 pm

Actually, it might be doing it for low bitrate video:

Microsoft documentation wrote:For low-bit-rate video content, the new video frame smoothing feature in Windows Media Player 9 Series helps ensure that the video looks better than ever. And much more!

Wait, it says smoothing NOT sharpening

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:36 pm

danielwang wrote:Actually, it might be doing it for low bitrate video:
Microsoft documentation wrote:For low-bit-rate video content, the new video frame smoothing feature in Windows Media Player 9 Series helps ensure that the video looks better than ever. And much more!
Wait, it says smoothing NOT sharpening

Done with that shovel yet, or were you planning to keep on digging until you hit the center of the earth?

I don't normally make posts like this... but you posted this quote twice now and only realized now that it said smoothing and not sharpening? And besides, why would it NOT blur (or smooth, whichever term you prefer) on resizing up? It's got to do SOMEthing to make it bigger... so would you prefer the pixelation of the nearest neighbor algorithm, or the blur of some other method?

And either way, 640x480 128kbps videos look nothing like DVD-quality video no matter what you do to them, in WMP or any other player. If the "noob" can't tell the difference, that's his/her fault, not WMP's.