interlaced video output to progressive scan tv

[gazix]

I use my home theatre pc (amongst many other things) to watch
buffy the vampire slayer and angel tv shows (complete series dvds)

If I leave play them in vlc player they look really good, that is untill the action scenes. Where anyone can obviously tell that they are both interlaced video... I usually use the de-interlaced - mean option to fix this problem. Only thing is that the picture quality tends to suffer (not terribly though).

I was wondering if there was a good software player out there that would act as a good 'line doubler'? Is there such a thing? That way I could keep the progressive scan picture quality on playback, since there are a lot of action sequences in these shows.

Not a huge deal, just curious is all...

[daamon]

PowerDVD & WinDVD are among the usual favourites.

[gazix]

Unfortunately powerdvd (4) won't let me output pressed discs to my tv

I have a radeon 9600 with dvi to component dongle.

I guess I could search for some freeware decrypt on the fly programs. Elbysoft anydvd didn't do anything. Powerdvd still complains about a commerical disc..

Also vlc seems to crash a lot of the time.