So I have a video that’s resolution is something like 900X600 (give or take). When played fullscreen, it pixelates much like a youtube movie does.
I’d like to find something that will allow me to re-encode it in a higher resolution (1920x1080). I would assume that it would need some sort of cubic interpolation filter to keep decent image quality.
Ya teh whole upscaling and upconverting on DVD players always amazed me as to how it worked. The whole point of compression is to remove any possible extra space so i cant imagine it.
sure you can. I read an article in a photo magazine about a year or two ago about a photoshop plugin that did exactly this. It used a special algorithm to analyze the image, then based on that information would scale the image up to the proper size, the scan it again versus the inital scan and would in a sense create the missing detail. The results were pretty stunning (albeit, not as good as an original high resolution image, but good none the less)… I imagine this same technique could be used for video as well.
I’m sure there is some program out there that can do it and improve the quality a little bit, but I don’t know anything off hand. I would start by finding a new video player for the file that might be able to clean up the image better when you make it full-screen. Or download a program called ‘Super’ and try messing around with that. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html - it might come out looking a little better, but I’ve never tried to do this.