A Superior Upsizing Filter/App

[Soopafresh]

If you have the hard disk space, uncompressed AVI would work fine, then encode the output file to Mpeg2. 13GB per hour seems very low. Try it on a file. If you're hurting for space, use Lagarith, which will reduce the output AVI file size but it will still be lossless.

[jagabo]

Should go the "uncompressed .avi" way (I know each hour takes 13 GB, but I have that space available) ?

Uncompressed RGB at 720x480x30fps is about 112 GB/hr. Uncompressed YUY2 is about 75 GB/Hr. DV is about 13 GB/hr but is compressed with a lossy algorithm.

Your best results with somewhat reasonable file sizes will be with lossless compression codecs like HuffYUV, Lagarith. I don't know what Deemon sends to the compression codec (RGB, YUY2, YV12?) but you are going to YV12 for DVD so you might as well use YUY2 and one of the above codecs. HuffYUV is fast but doesn't compress as well as Lagarith. Both can work in RGB or YUY2. Ffdshow includes a HuffYUV codec. MSU's lossless codec gives the best compression but it's quite slow. Lagarith is probably your best compromise -- 20 to 30 GB/hr.

[AnitaPeterson]

Oh...

Wow, I see that I was *way off* with the space requirements... In this case, it seems using something like Lagarith would be best... I have about 80 GB to play with.

Do I just download and install Lagarith, then let Video Enhancer detect it and use it? Is it that simple, or is there something else I need to do?

[jagabo]

Do I just download and install Lagarith, then let Video Enhancer detect it and use it?

Yes, if it uses installed codecs. There are a few options in its config dialog.