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Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

But that´s going to take ages, like one second per frame or so, depending on the resolution, plus the time to recode it... :hmm:

Nah! Just use AVISynth and it will do it close to real time. It is of course - CPU dependant.

A sample script for recorded TV that would work for turning content into 720p:
LoadPlugin("D:\Temp\dgmpgdec148\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("D:\Temp\dgmpgdec148\Decomb.dll")
mpeg2source("dgd2vfile.d2v")
FieldDeinterlace() |assuming recorded TV is pure interlaced material, turning it into progressive material
Lanczos4Resize(1280,720) |assuming 852x480 content here, making 1280x720 and still maintaining proper aspect ratio while upsampling with a very sharp 4 tap engine.

An optional thing would be to add the Crop (x,x,x,x) command to the end if you do not care about maintaing 1280x720 for proper sizing.

-S

Some info on this filter:

Lanczos4Resize is closely related to LanczosResize (correct name: Lanczos3Resize). The latter uses 2*3=6 lobes and the former 2*4=8 lobes to do the resizing. The result is that Lanczos4Resize produces sharper images. Especially usefull when upsizing a clip.
Interpolation Tap Size (taps parameter)
"For upsampling (making the image larger), the filter is sized such that the entire equation falls across 4 input samples, making it a 4-tap filter. It doesn't matter how big the output image is going to be - it's still just 4 taps. For downsampling (making the image smaller), the equation is sized so it will fall across 4 *destination* samples, which obviously are spaced at wider intervals than the source samples. So for downsampling by a factor of 2 (making the image half as big), the filter covers 2*4=8 input samples, and thus 8 taps. For 3x downsampling, you need 3*4=12 taps, and so forth.
Thus the total number of taps you need for downsampling is the downsampling ratio times the number of lobes (thus Tx downsampling and LanczoskResize results in T*2*k taps). And practically, one needs to round that up to the next even integer. For upsampling, it's always 4 taps." Source: [avsforum post].
Lanczos4Resize is a short hand for LanczosResize(taps=4).