Upconvert SD to HD using software?

[videomaniac]

Is there software for upconverting SD video to HD 1080i?

Googling did not yield any results but I have heard that there is software that can do this.

Thanks

[manono]

Hi-

AviSynth can do it for you, if I understand you correctly. It can resize it, telecine it, if necessary, even sharpen it up a bit. It can then frameserve to the encoder of your choice. The whole exercise sounds kind of pointless to me, though.

[Soopafresh]

Yeah, you can do it, but it won't look very good at all.

[videomaniac]

Hi-

AviSynth can do it for you, if I understand you correctly. It can resize it, telecine it, if necessary, even sharpen it up a bit. It can then frameserve to the encoder of your choice. The whole exercise sounds kind of pointless to me, though.

What I am looking for is the 'encoder of your choice'? I am not aware of an mpeg encoder that will allow you to specify 1920x1080, do you know of one that will?

BTW I whole heartedly agree that it would probably not look good but I am one of those people who has to see it for myself.

Below is the thread where DrP claims this software exists and that the result looks pretty good!

http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/showthread.php?p=17183#post17183

[wwjd]

Hi-

AviSynth can do it for you, if I understand you correctly. It can resize it, telecine it, if necessary, even sharpen it up a bit. It can then frameserve to the encoder of your choice. The whole exercise sounds kind of pointless to me, though.

What I am looking for is the 'encoder of your choice'? I am not aware of an mpeg encoder that will allow you to specify 1920x1080, do you know of one that will?

BTW I whole heartedly agree that it would probably not look good but I am one of those people who has to see it for myself.

Below is the thread where DrP claims this software exists and that the result looks pretty good!

http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/showthread.php?p=17183#post17183

I took a look at the URL and DrP seems pretty sure there is a fair amount of software that will do the SD to HD. However, I can not seem to find anything!

I have Procoder, CCE and few other mpeg encoders and none of them let you output anything even close to 1920x1080. I will keep looking!!

[jagabo]

TMPGEnc Plus will let you encode at 1920x1080 if you pick one of the High profiles.

[BJ_M]

many mpeg encoders will do hd ...

main concept
tmpgenc
canopus
pixel tools

[videomaniac]

many mpeg encoders will do hd ...

main concept
tmpgenc
canopus
pixel tools

Which Canopus product? I have Procoder Express and it does not allow it.

I have just downloaded TMPGenc Plus Trial and I can not find a way to do it, although there may be restrictions on the trial.

I will check out Pixel Tools. ---> At $4,000.00 this in not really an option!

Thanks

[BJ_M]

pixel tools is 4000$

canopus procoder does HD

tmpgenc does HD


main Concept does HD


use high level, main profile in all the cases above ...

[BJ_M]

no one ever said hd is cheap ...

and to get really really good upconversion quality takes a lot of skill and time (or a lot of money)

[jagabo]

TMPGEnc:

Setting -> Video

Unlock the "Profile & Level" field and set it to "High Profile and High Level (HP&HL)".

Then set the frame size. And remember to use a much higher bitrate than normal.

[manono]

Yeah, DrP is talking about the same thing I had in mind. If you're handy with AviSynth, you can get some very surprising results. Here are a couple of threads that might help you:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=70916

Page 7 of that thread has some pics with before and after.

LimitedSharpen is my favorite AviSynth sharpener:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84196

Here's an AviSynth page to get you started with LimitedSharpen. I use LimitedSharpenFaster.:

http://www.avisynth.org/LimitedSharpen

Some (most?) of those guys in those threads are doing this for AVI (XviD mostly). There's nothing that says it has to be for MPEG-2. Use a good high bitrate matrix and the results can be astounding.

[videomaniac]

TMPGEnc:

Setting -> Video

Unlock the "Profile & Level" field and set it to "High Profile and High Level (HP&HL)".

Then set the frame size. And remember to use a much higher bitrate than normal.

Thanks! I found it and it is working.

manono wrote:

Yeah, DrP is talking about the same thing I had in mind. If you're handy with AviSynth, you can get some very surprising results. Here are a couple of threads that might help you:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=70916

Page 7 of that thread has some pics with before and after.

LimitedSharpen is my favorite AviSynth sharpener:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84196

Here's an AviSynth page to get you started with LimitedSharpen. I use LimitedSharpenFaster.:

http://www.avisynth.org/LimitedSharpen

Some (most?) of those guys in those threads are doing this for AVI (XviD mostly). There's nothing that says it has to be for MPEG-2. Use a good high bitrate matrix and the results can be astounding.

Thanks also! I will look more at this tomorrow.

[True Colors]

Sounds interesting. If anyone actually tests these things then please report back with your results.

TC

[Noahtuck]

You do realize this is a 4 year old dead thread.... right ?


The OP has not even been on site for 3 years!!
LOL!!

[tony2a4]

Power DVD 10 does a pretty good job, but it only works on files. You would have to rip the files on to your hard drive.

[Roger1972]

http://www.virtualdub.org/ and http://www.infognition.com/super_resolution_vdf/

The quality is not bad.

Or with hardware:
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tvmw5.html and http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp_spurs.html