HELP WITH DIVX AND FDDSHOW PLEASE

bigjonnyauk · 14 Nov 2006 at 01:19

HI ALL

wonder if you guys can help after seeing so many threads about getting fddshow i have now got it but man it is a litle confusing for me lol

i have 19 inch tft monitor so dont want to know yet about outputting to hdtv as i need to rob a bank first for the funds lol

i have a few divx bits and bobs which my kids love watching the problem is the quality

seems to be blurred around the edges quite bad and colour seems a little faded

i am using media player classic by the way

can you please help me with settings to get a decent image please cheers

if its any use my monitor is 1440x900 and i have fit to screen on mpc

thanks guys i tried some settings but tbh didnt have a clue what i was doing lol

bigjonnyauk · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:23

no one

dirtydog · 15 Nov 2006 at 09:22

It's FFDShow

And your post is a bit vague which is probably why you haven't had any replies

Energize · 15 Nov 2006 at 13:53

Using the upscaling function set the video to 1440x900 and increase the colour saturation in the picture properties. If it's a bit blurred than try increasing the sharpness.

Amp34 · 15 Nov 2006 at 17:27

Can someone point me to a guide showing how to upscale using the ffdshow options?

Trick · 15 Nov 2006 at 18:31

This is the most straight-forward guide I've found:

Linky

Work your way through that. I found that under the Resize and Aspect settings of ffdshow, a Lanczos setting of 4 taps gave the best payoff between cpu usage and visual quality.

Zoom Player is an excellent player for avi's and DVD's.

Amp34 · 15 Nov 2006 at 20:54

Thanks, I'll have a look at that now.

bigjonnyauk · 16 Nov 2006 at 17:57

Energize said:
Using the upscaling function set the video to 1440x900 and increase the colour saturation in the picture properties. If it's a bit blurred than try increasing the sharpness.

thanks mate got it going and not looking to bad infact it looks better when playing through proper media player than media player classic

all i use now is this fddshow but when i tried to play a proper dvd it came up in media player as a little box how can i adjust this so its full scrren goodness

Energize · 16 Nov 2006 at 18:11

Right click--> full screen.

bigjonnyauk · 16 Nov 2006 at 18:21

lol tried that just makes the box a bit bigger :rolleyes:

no_1_dave · 16 Nov 2006 at 18:22

The same thing happens to me.
A little box in big black borders

Energize · 16 Nov 2006 at 18:34

That happens to me if I try to continue play a video right after changing the upscaling settings but its never done it after I've restarted ffdshow.

Trick · 16 Nov 2006 at 20:25

here are the settings I use:

no_1_dave · 16 Nov 2006 at 20:27

Are those settings for a TFT monitor or HD TV?
I wanna upscale to 720p for my monitor (17" LCD, nothing fancy)

Trick · 16 Nov 2006 at 20:32

32" hdtv

Memphis · 16 Nov 2006 at 21:08

Trick said:
This is the most straight-forward guide I've found:

Linky

Work your way through that. I found that under the Resize and Aspect settings of ffdshow, a Lanczos setting of 4 taps gave the best payoff between cpu usage and visual quality.

Zoom Player is an excellent player for avi's and DVD's.

While I agree that it is possibly the best, most well written guide on the web, the only slight snag is it doesn't always work on every setup.

Which is a shame.

Vegeta · 16 Nov 2006 at 22:18

Trick said:
Zoom Player is an excellent player for avi's and DVD's.

Does this 'Zoom Player' automatically upscale avi's and dvd's?

Trick · 16 Nov 2006 at 22:39

No but you can easily get it to use ffdshow by ensuring that under codecs, raw video is set to all supported. This will enforce the post processing of ffdshow onto avi's played by players such as zoom player

Zoom Player here is set to accept ffdshow filters: