Upscaling DivX

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How would it look on a 42" plasma if I upscaled your average 699mb divx film?

Is it good enough quality to watch on that size of tv?
 
You may be able to use ffdshow to apply some smoothing filters to help, but on the whole you'll easily be able to spot that you're watching a heavily compressed movie.

You can watch it, but if you're picky about image quality it will annoy you that it's not DVD quality, and if you're getting used to BR you'll probably be even more annoyed!
 
Plasma is pretty forgiving, I'd try it and see what you think personally. Your eyes are the final judgement after all.
 
In all honesty it depends on the quality of the encoding. How many passes were used etc. I've back up movies and there was no blockyness on a 700mb file using xvid codec. 1.4Gb is the way to go if the film is 2hrs+.
 
They don't look amazing, but with some careful tweaking via multiple FFDshow and sitting a reasonable distance away, even a moderate picture divx can look acceptable, ok not quite to the level of DVD/Blu-ray/HDDVD but still pretty watchable.

I tend to use postprocessing ---> upscaling ---> warpsharp, but different people prefer different settings (I'm using x64 FFDshow and wmp btw)
 
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Here is a screenshot i just took using FFDshow to upscale a 2CD XViD. The results are good.

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I stream 700mb DivX/XviD files from my PC through a XBOX 360 which upscales the image to 1080p for display on a 37" Pioneer LCD. It's very watchable, although I will always go for larger file sizes for epic films like the above.
 
I use DIVX movies through either my PS3 or Popcorn A100 and to be honest, on my 42" Panasonic Plasma you CAN notice that its a compressed file.

700MB DIVX movies of an average of 2hrs you can see blocky noise and more noticable the darker the scene....

1.4GB DIVX is much better, then then when Tesco and most DVD retailers now chruning out a DVD for less then a fiver for some top titles, when these are played in an upscale DVD player, I mean honestly its almost Blu Ray... Well not quite but is really good, I have a PS3 and only a handful of Blu Ray, but hundreds of DVD's most I paid less then £7, many at £3 in supermarkets...

DIVX is ok but nothing beats a real DVD or blu ray..... I also think sometimes DIVX sound isn't as good, many are recoded to ACC and downgraded to 2.1, some are multi channel, and blu ray in mkv are huge files, and I can hardly stream then across wireless.....

For the sake of a fiver, I just buy the DVD...!! lol
 
sparkey196 said:
Here is a screenshot i just took using FFDshow to upscale a 2CD XViD. The results are good.
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Yeah that is pretty good. Faces and the like are very kind to that kind of compression though... if there are zoomed out scenes of landscapes, smoke and or large patches of colour, these types of scenes can look worse. :o
 
daz said:
Yeah that is pretty good. Faces and the like are very kind to that kind of compression though... if there are zoomed out scenes of landscapes, smoke and or large patches of colour, these types of scenes can look worse. :o
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OK, here is another shot from the same film but this scene features quite fast camera panning, motion and SMOKE. Set your eyes to STUNNED.

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FYI I've added a bit of noise using the mplayer noise filter. this is to give the illusion of film grain detail.
 
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