Tv tuner software dscaler

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Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET. Download Now. DScaler is a piece of software that grabs analog, interlaced video, and deinterlaces it to make it a progressive scan feed, then allows scaling to any resolution for use on your computer monitor or projector. Analog, interlaced video are devices like VCRs, laserdisc, and game consoles output.

Unlike most existing software for use with TV cards, DScaler implements sophisticated deinterlacing algorithms. Using such algorithms makes sure that each kind of video source is handled a different way. It provides the user with a level of image quality unknown to PC owners until now. Some of the techniques are: video source deinterlacing; inverse telecine detection: for PAL movies as well as for NTSC movies pulldown; automatic aspect ratio control; judder elimination.

The image quality resulting from those complex operations is high and allows some people equipped with data capable projectors to feed them with progressive scan images. Full Specifications. Watched several hours of various movies. Found something really cool that is awsome for projectors.

It's a filter inside dscaler called the gamma filter. While it's cool without any tweaking done to it. If you go into the options of it and change the black levels,white levels, until it looks correct. I have found this is a lot better then using the contrast button on my panel.

My contrast on my panel either has really dark scenes when contrast is low or really washed out scenes when contrast is high. Gamma filter helps stabilize the brightness. MuzzMan Member. I have been looking into the easiest way to do this for ages. I new dscaler supported gamma curves, but it needs a tv tuner card to function, even if you already have a video in or WDM driver.

I have composite video capture and video out built in to my video card, but can't adjust gamma. I know it is possible to use a special software DirectShow filter to do it, but I don't want to go to the lengths of programming anything, and I can't find any net stuff to help there. I have been looking around trying to find a simple gamma correction circuit, fairly unsuccesfully.

Seems adjusting the gamma of a composite signal is complicated, needs to be RGB, and so you need to duplicate a reasonably fancy circuit three times Philips used to make a chip that just did that and nothing much else, but they discontinued it. Right now I am thinking I will buy a tv tuner card just so I can use dscaler, I think they are not too much now.

Ever heard of Powerstrip. Yeah Powerstrip is a great product for supporting multiple video cards, and I had thought of projector applications for that. For instance, grab an older chips or so based LCD driver card, and support that as the second display adapter using powerstrip, driving a dirt cheap old laptop display from it. The included help is very useful, or you can ask for help in fine-tuning settings.

Audio input should be either Tuner for TV or Stereo for console output; you should check pin 1 if it's there. If the options are there, I find the best picture is achieved by turning on AGC including crush , comb, full luma range, and leaving everything else unchecked. If you really want to reduce lag, besides common-sense stuff like not opening 50 other programs or turning on every filter, there are a couple Advanced Settings to get the latency all the way down.

Use Video Input to switch between TV tuner, composite, s-video, etc. The two most important menus for picture quality and performance are Deinterlace and Filters.

First, uncheck Automatic Detection and JudderTerminator. The next thing you will want to do is select the general deinterlacer you like the best. Next you can see what filters you want to use.

I personally have them all turned off, but these can be useful if they improve your picture: Temporal Comb, Adaptive Noise Reduction, Chroma.

If you can't really tell a difference or know why you would want any of these, just leave them all off. If your source is an old console PS1, N64, Saturn, or older , you can try the Old Game deinterlacer; if you are playing via RF or composite, check the composite box in the Old Game settings. If you are using RF or composite, you will also want to turn on the Temporal Comb filter to stop dot crawl and rainbowing. To take a screenshot, just hit L.