Posted by David McCall on 05/18/07 14:32

<panteltje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On 18 mei, 02:48, "Peter D" <please@.sk> wrote:
>> "Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> news:f2i6fb$dv9$1@news.datemas.de...
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>>
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>> > On a sunny day (Thu, 17 May 2007 12:00:17 -0500) it happened "Peter D"
>> > <please@.sk> wrote in <134p2hajtvpk...@corp.supernews.com>:
>>
>> >>And the "My OS is bigger and better than your OS" pissing contest
>> >>begins --
>> >>and the question asked gets lost in all the testosterone! :-)
>>
>> >>So, what is the best software to capture high Res Stills from video:
>>
>> > The question is not specific enough.
>> > I took it first as:
>> > 'What is the best sotware to capture a frame from a high-res movie?'
>> > Linux: xine (press capture button).
>> > The capture will of course have the same resolution as the original
>> > video.
>> > You can use xv or imagemagic to increase size, but that will not add
>> > any
>> > more detail.
>> > There are legio programs that decode and display frames.....
>> > Transcode can do it IIRC.
>> > There is I even the old mpeg2 decoder C source from Berkely.
>> > It has _nothing_ to do with 'what OS'.
>
>> OK. then what about answering the question you answered above, but
>> substituting Windows XP for *nix?
>
> You are obviously not knowledgable on the following subject:
> 1) look up original thread in google.
> 2) understand what 'hi res' stands for.
> 3) what a C source is.
> 4) what a decoder is (see below)
> 5) usenet etiquette, I am not required to help you
> 6) thinking clearly for yourself
> 7) Only on idiot would swap Linux for XP
> 8) only an imbecile would swap XP or Linux for Vista
> 9) your rant and question is boring and has been answered multiple
> time
> 10) duh
>
I'll bet you said the same thing about XP back when you were still using
2000.

Yes there are reasons to switch from linux to XP. It's called available
software.

There used to be a program that could up-rez an image through fancy
interpolation.
Then there was the Snappy from Play that used multiple frames to help with
the
interpolating to achieve a beter quality image.

No matter how fancy the interpolation, you still only have the
data that was in the original image. Interpolation at it's best not
only creates new pixels based on the value of surrounding pixels,
but it also looks for edges that it can extend into the new pixels.
It is still just guessing.

David
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>> > Only to do with if you have a decoder for the format.
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