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Just an other small help for new users: after a lot of visual tests, this is my advice for people that use Intel IGPU on Windows 8 or 10 like HD 4000 or HD 4400. Please use MPC-BE or MPC-HC as player, madVR as video renderer, but for the best compromise between quality and power use the Intel DXVA video scaler is of great quality. It's a context adaptive scaler Lanczos 4 based with high quality anti-ringing filter, Lanczos 2 or 3 taps as chroma upscaling algorithm. The pipeline is not 16 bit, but 8 bit NV12...in upscaling from 480 to 1080 the Intel DXVA scaler is sharper respect to madVR Lanczos 3 or 4 with or without anti-ringing. On downscaling Intel use Lanczos 4 without anti-ringing, good choice IMHO. Always sharper in a positive way respect to madVR Lanczos 3 or 4 downscaling. The Intel scaler also generally manage better aliasing and heavy ringing from poor compressed sources WHILE (I repeat) showing a real natural sharper image.
madVR Jinc upscaling is too soft IMHO, idem in downscaling. |
