Posted by Chimpolean Chimpinista on 02/04/06 16:00

<davesvideo@aol.com> wrote in message
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: Richard Tomkins wrote:
: > I am wondering what sort of free software is
available for processing video
: > on Macintosh systems, OS X 10.4
: >
: > Specifically, if I have a video stream, say an .avi
file and it's resolution
: > is such that I get a small 256 x 256 pixel window
when viewing it, is there
: > any software that I could use to upsample the video
to a higher resolution.
: > I want to be able to fill a regular TV screen or
close to it with a
: > reasonable quality image.
:
: It is sort of a misnomer to say upsample to a higher
resolution. You
: can expand the video so there are more pixels, but
that isn't going to
: make it higher resolution. With QuickTime (available
on Macs), you can
: read a 256 x 256 file and export it back out at any
size you choose, of
: course at full screeen it is going to look pretty
bad.
:
: Dave

I think Richard is watching too much CSI on TV.
:

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