madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)

[James Freeman]

madshi,

Will there be image quality improvement options in the new release?
Or something extremely helpful like Smooth Motion?

I'm investigating because my patience is about to blow.

[6233638]

Originally Posted by James Freeman

Will there be image quality improvement options in the new release?

Debanding should be in the next release, and that can greatly improve image quality with many sources.

Recently, a lot of the Blu-rays I've been watching seem to have had banding to some degree, so I'm looking forward to a new build which hopefully has the refresh rate issues fixed.

[madshi]

Originally Posted by huhn

found the real game with that option. it's world of tanks. it doesn't change the taskbar it's free to play and if i get it right it's direct x 9.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by James Freeman

Will there be image quality improvement options in the new release?

Yes. At least 2 of those. And some rather nice usability improvements. I'm aiming at releasing it in time for the next weekend. Here's a small teaser to wet your appetite:

teaser screenshot

[James Freeman]

Originally Posted by madshi

Yes. At least 2 of those. And some rather nice usability improvements. I'm aiming at releasing it in time for the next weekend. Here's a small teaser to wet your appetite:

teaser screenshot

Although, I may have to ask: What is "Image Doubling"?

Thank you, Can't wait.


I've been thinking,
If MadVR had some pro Quality Post Processing algorithm to remove compression noise and artifacts,
along with the new Debanding algorithm, we could have a picture quality that equals to Digital Cinema or better from blu ray.

[madshi]

I don't know. Maybe I've thrown something bogus in to confuse you? Or maybe it's a new feature?

[6233638]

I can think of a couple of reasons why options like these might be making it in now, but the profiles alone are very exciting.

And because I'm greedy... it would be nice if debanding options could also be part of a profile rather than being set globally.

480/576i/p will be DVDs and probably use a medium strength debanding.
Anything 720p is web-sourced (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo etc.) and requires strong debanding.
Anything 1080i/p will be a Blu-ray disc and use low debanding.

[madshi]

Your greedy needs are already fully supported. Profiling will be very flexible. And yes, there's a reason why I've added profiling *now*.

[6233638]

Originally Posted by madshi

Your greedy needs are already fully supported. Profiling will be very flexible. And yes, there's a reason why I've added profiling *now*.

I suspected you would have already thought of it.

[DragonQ]

Originally Posted by madshi

Here's a small teaser to wet your appetite

Methinks you mean whet our appetites.

[madshi]

I actually wrote "whet" first and then deleted the "h" because I thought it was wrong...

[michkrol]

Originally Posted by madshi

Yes. At least 2 of those. And some rather nice usability improvements. I'm aiming at releasing it in time for the next weekend. Here's a small teaser to wet your appetite:

teaser screenshot

Thanks as always. Can't wait.
If I understand the screen correctly the profiles will be much more flexible than I thought they could be

[DarkSpace]

Originally Posted by madshi

teaser screenshot

If image doubling does what I think it does, will it be possible to, say, perform image doubling from 480p to 960p and then perform rest of the scaling to 1080p using the normal upscaling algorithms?

[madshi]

Yes and yes.

[James Freeman]

EDIT: too late (and wrong).

Is it a simple whole number (x2) prescaler or is it customizable (for x1.00 to x4.00)?
If so, the result will be a controllable amount of blurr (filtering).

[Stereodude]

Originally Posted by DarkSpace

If image doubling does what I think it does, will it be possible to, say, perform image doubling from 480p to 960p and then perform rest of the scaling to 1080p using the normal upscaling algorithms?

Pardon the potentially stupid question, but why would you want to do that? Don't you have to scale the image to double it?

[leeperry]

more than likely save GPU load I guess ^

[AndreaMG]

Originally Posted by madshi

Thanks.


Yes. At least 2 of those. And some rather nice usability improvements. I'm aiming at releasing it in time for the next weekend. Here's a small teaser to wet your appetite:

teaser screenshot

Hi Madshi, THANKS!!!!!!!! (my prayers in post #15902 2nd december 2012 were listened to ). It's good news for people with older GPUs . Now it's time for 3D support, mind blowing sharpening algorithms, motion interpolation, noise reduction, perfect cadence detection,... just kidding, thanks again!
By the way, will it be called "v1.0"?

[tschi]

I guess double scaling refers to nneedi algorithm

[AndreaMG]

Originally Posted by madshi

Yes and yes.

If memory serves me right sometime ago you succeeded in obtaining very good results in term of GPU load upscaling 1080 videos to 4k even with jinc; older GPUs will benefit from this "double" function??
Will it be similar to the PS3 "double scale" option while playing dvds?

[DarkSpace]

Originally Posted by Stereodude

Pardon the potentially stupid question, but why would you want to do that? Don't you have to scale the image to double it?

I had a guess at precisely what Image Doubling is going to do, and if it's going to do what I think it will, it'll be a special form of image upscaling to look forward to. So you are right, but the upscaling will only work for doubling the width and/or height of an image.

EDIT: tschi, you ruined all the fun... and after madshi took great care to keep it secret also...