Engadget: How to scale video

by Kevin C. Tofel, posted Feb 14th 2006 at 7:40PM

The talented Engadget crew has a fantastic tutorial showing you how to build your own HD video scaler. The pic above shows a before (clearly on the left) and after (even more clear on the right) using the DIY setup. Descaler is the free software app that the Engadget team uses, so you'll want to download that when you get a chance. If you've got a home theater PC with a capture card like we do, just follow the simple steps and you'll increase video quality on your PC in a simple and painless way. Note: This pics above are from a VHS copy of Titanic by by Mark Rejhon.

Filed under: DIY, Media PCs

Tags: DTV, Engadget, HD Beat, HdBeat, HDTV, scale video, ScaleVideo, TV, WMCE

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Dave Zatz @ Feb 14th 2006 8:50PM

My first two HTPC's powered my NEC VT540 projector via DScaler. Nice app and great (free) price!

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Travis Bell @ Feb 15th 2006 12:16AM

Yes, DScaler is a decent app indeed. I am anxiously awaiting a more mature version of DScaler 5 but they seem to be pretty knee deep in developing a MPEG2 decoder.

I use FFDSHOW (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm) to control DScaler... works pretty well.

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