solution to make low res video bigger without upscaling

[codemaster]

I'm using MPC-HC.

360p video looks too sharp if I watch it in window mode, but looks too blurry if I switch from window mode to fullscreen mode. Upscaling makes it very blurry.

Is there a way to make the video bigger, without upscaling it ? Or the only solution is to use a more advanced image sharpening filter ?

[jagabo]

Watch it in a 2x window? Switch your graphics card to nearest neighbor (aka point) resizing? Or use a sharper upscaler (like bicubic).

[codemaster]

In MPC-HC, I have "Bilinear" resizer, which is the default.

In MPC-HC, the resizers are:
- Nearest neighbor;
- Bilinear;
- Bilinear (PS 2.0);
- Bicubic A = 0.60 (PS 2.0);
- Bicubic A = 0.75 (PS 2.0);
- Bicubic A = 1.00 (PS 2.0).

Which of those resizers provide the best quality resizing ?

[jagabo]

Try Bicubic 0.75 or 1.00. If you were using Bilinear before that should be a little sharper. You can also use MPCHC's shaders. Try Edge Sharpen and/or Sharpen. But sharpening a low quality video will make the compression artifacts worse.