Linux DScaler equivelent? (TV software)

madrebel

I should probabyl me asking this question on the avsforums but well ok ill do that next.

http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

I just got my tv card installed and working correctly and im using XawTV to view the broadcasts. But, well, the picture quality isnt as good as it was under windows using dscaler. dscaler has the wonderful ability of cleaning up the noise and improving over all quality.

So, is there a linux program that is similar?

Thanks.

madrebel · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:42 am Post subject:

sorry to spam, i shoulda ran a search.

i guess mplayer works very well.

Boba · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 38

http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
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oisch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 130

I would recommend mplayer. It has lots of filters (just like dscaler) and in contrary to all the other tv apps I tried it can use the 756x512 Resolution, which looks very nice with deinterlacing.
Two problems:
1. The CPU usage is rather high.
2. Imho it is only useable when using lirc. There is no user interface for controlling the TV function of mplayer.

do a man mplayer and look at the tv parameters you can set.
I haven't tried this tv time thing, so I dunno if it's better or worse.

nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

I was using dscaler before switching to linux, too.

tvtime supports greedy2frame (which I guess is the reason for dscaler's popularity), but greedy looks not as good when running tvtime...
I'd guess that there is no dscaler equivalent available :cry: