dvd upscale program for mac

MichaelHo · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:14

wondering if there were any dvd upscaling software or methods i could use for the mac?
i want to use my macbook as a dvd player and link it to my hdtv and would love it if it could upscale normal dvds.

MichaelHo · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:24

i think i found a software, dvd studio pro 4. does anyone use this?

Doug · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:27

Erm, DVD Player scales to fit your screen...

DVD Studio is for composing and burning DVDs...

MichaelHo · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:53

i want a program that will upscale standard dvd resolution to HD resolution, surely a standard dvd player will not do this?

Mat · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:55

AFAIK, you cant upscale from standard to HD like that as it would require the addition of information which is impossible :confused:

DVD Player will jsut play the DVD, filling the screen as has already been said.

Doug · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:59

MichaelHo said:
i want a program that will upscale standard dvd resolution to HD resolution, surely a standard dvd player will not do this?

And just what do you think an upscaler does? it scales the DVD resolution to that of your display. Connect the Mac to your HDTV at native resolution and use DVD Player.

MichaelHo · 6 Jul 2006 at 13:10

i thought what it does was jus stretch the pixels when you play full screen.
upscalers actually increase resolution.
there is a method for doing it in windows just wondering if there was for mac.

Basher · 6 Jul 2006 at 13:14

MichaelHo said:
i thought what it does was jus stretch the pixels when you play full screen.
upscalers actually increase resolution.
there is a method for doing it in windows just wondering if there was for mac.

Yup that's correct and Doug is wrong. I think VLC can do this.

MichaelHo · 6 Jul 2006 at 13:15

something like this:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17540029&highlight=upscale+dvd

but for mac.

will check out vlc, thanks basher.

Doug · 6 Jul 2006 at 14:36

All scalers do the same job, they take AxB resolution and scale it to YxZ resolution. The difference is how efficiently they do it and what kind of filtering they apply. ie. a simple stretch, or a filtered resample.

ffdshow does a lot of funky filtering, which results in a better picture than the filtering in say WinDVD, but they're both doing the same thing: making AxB pixels into YxZ pixels.

Just been playing around with VLC, and, by default, there don't seem to be any advanced scaling filters. But the output is fine as it is. There may be advanced filter available to download, but I don't know where.