Using VLC to play DVDs - Anything I should know?

Iron Goldfish

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I recently got a lovely Belinea 19'' widescreen TFT and it occured to me that DVDs would look a hell of a lot better on it than my portable TV. VLC seems to be the DVD playing software that everyone recommends, so I tried that.

It looks pretty good, but I'm just using default settings at the moment because I don't really know what I'm doing. Any settings I should mess around with to make my DVDs look even prettier? :)
 
Use media player classic and ffdshow to upscale the image and de-noise it, looks much better, don't forget to de-interlace using motion compensation if it is interlaced.
 
i live media player classic, but only when it works - lately it just keeps crashing when I try to open a DVD.

I might try out VLC when I get round to it, settling for PoweDVD just now, because I'm only listening.
 
Energize said:
Use media player classic and ffdshow to upscale the image and de-noise it, looks much better, don't forget to de-interlace using motion compensation if it is interlaced.
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So if I download and install ffdshow how do I upscale and de-noise it? Or does ffdshow do this automatically?
 
eriedor said:
Don't know about VLC settings but thought i would just add

Media Player Classic < VLC ;d
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Fixed :p

Anyway, to answer the OPs question, you shouldn't have to do anything to make VLC look better, all looks good on default settings to me. The vSync is a bit rubbish though, maybe that can be turned up... ?
 
MarcLister said:
So if I download and install ffdshow how do I upscale and de-noise it? Or does ffdshow do this automatically?
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Theres a load of checkboxes and settings in the config page, you just check upscaling and tell it the res you want to it upscale to and then restart the player you are using.
 
Energize said:
Theres a load of checkboxes and settings in the config page, you just check upscaling and tell it the res you want to it upscale to and then restart the player you are using.
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So by res to upscale to, I'd choose my screen res?

Oh and options in what? MPC or ffdshow?
 
MarcLister said:
So by res to upscale to, I'd choose my screen res?

Oh and options in what? MPC or ffdshow?
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Yes and ffdshow. You may want to enable framerate doubling deinterlacing, it gives you a much smoother image, 50fps instead of 25. Though some say it looks "too real".
 
Energize said:
Yes and ffdshow. You may want to enable framerate doubling deinterlacing, it gives you a much smoother image, 50fps instead of 25. Though some say it looks "too real".
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OK thanks will check it out later.
 
Energize said:
Yes and ffdshow. You may want to enable framerate doubling deinterlacing, it gives you a much smoother image, 50fps instead of 25. Though some say it looks "too real".
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I've installed ffdshow and I did the res upscale I think. I can't find the framerate doubling deinterlacing option in either Media Player Classic or ffdshow. Any hints on where to look?
 
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Right something iffy is on here. I don't have as many options as you. So why am I missing some? :confused:
I have:
Codecs
Info
Tray & dialog settings
Image settings
Postprocessing
Picture properties
Offset
Blur
Sharpen
Noise
Subtitles
Font
Resize
Aspect & crop
Miscellaneous
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