Can you upscale Encoding?

iNewbie said:

You know how there are these Blue-Ray players that upscale DVD's to 1080p? Is there a way to do something similar via the ripping/encoding process?

I know it's not true "Blu-Ray" or anything, but I've heard some of these upscalers are decent and was just wondering if there was a way to do that with encodes.

Thanks

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well with a SD DVD you can rip with high settings that will make it look better than ripping with normal settings but i dont think you can make a SD DVD higher than 720x528

You can, but you will get nowhere near Blu Ray quality, and it's rather involved. You need to mess around with various sharpening etc. filters until you find a combination that works (Example).

Most of the time, it really isn't worth it.

iNewbie said:

You know how there are these Blue-Ray players that upscale DVD's to 1080p? Is there a way to do something similar via the ripping/encoding process?

I know it's not true "Blu-Ray" or anything, but I've heard some of these upscalers are decent and was just wondering if there was a way to do that with encodes.

Thanks

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Yes you can "upscale" the encode of DVD's but why? You aren't actually adding any real value and it just ends up taking up more space. Your TV will automatically upscale to it's native resolution, so I guess I never really see the need. Maybe someone else has a different opinion....

You wont gain any extra quality in upscaling. Let your projector do this. You're better off ripping the DVD and not re-encoding at all.

You can't make a DVD look like a Bluray. The data isn't there in the first place.

iNewbie said:

I'd think encoding is still preferred to strip out ads... warnings.. etc... then be available to play through apple tv or plex or xbmc right?

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Both plex and xbmc can play a straight ripped dvd. For appleTV you need to transcode it.

Edit: and yes, there is *no* benefit in upscaling upon encoding. The best you will do is have physically much larger file with about the same visual quality as if you were to upscale it on encode. As was said best to let the playback device upscale the originally sized encode.