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gcc-apple specific fallback not necessary anymore (btw no apple hardware is less than a Intel core, thus it won't come there w/out disabling all the optimizations)
author lu_zero
date Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:00:16 +0000
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4 ringing
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5 wave or noise like patterns around sharp edges
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6 bad: sinc, lanczos (with high filter length)
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7 acceptable: lanczos (with low filter length), cubic, spline
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8 ok: area, (fast)blinear, gauss, point
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10 blur
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11 loss of detail / high frequency
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12 bad: gauss with high variance
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13 acceptable: (fast)bilinear, area
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14 ok: others
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16 aliasing (only downscale)
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17 straight lines look like staircases
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18 areas of high detail look worse
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19 regular patterns turn into a funny looking mess (moire patterns)
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20 bad: fast bilinear, point, gauss with low variance
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21 acceptable: area
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22 ok: others
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24 blocky (upscale only)
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25 looks like the image is made of rectangular blocks like a mosaic
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26 bad: point
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27 ok: others
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29 recommendations: (based upon my personal opinion many ppl might disagree ...)
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32 the recommended scalers for upscaling:
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33 fast_bilinear, point if speed is important
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34 cubic, spline, lanczos if quality is important
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36 the recommended scalers for downscaling:
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37 fast_bilinear, point if speed is important
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38 gauss, bilinear if quality is important
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39 cubic, spline, lanczos if a sharper picture is important
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41 note: when encoding at a limited amount of bits (not constant quantizer)
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42 then a slightly blurred input might look better after decoding than a slightly
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43 sharpened one, especially for lower bitrates
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45 sws numbers / names / artifact types
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47 r ringing
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48 b blurry
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49 a aliasing (downscale only)
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50 m mosaic (blocky) (upscale only)
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52 -sws 0 fast bilinear bA
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53 -sws 1 bilinear b
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54 -sws 2 bicubic high sharpness r
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55 low sharpness b
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56 -sws 3 experimental ????
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57 -sws 4 nearest neighbour AM
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58 -sws 5 area ba
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59 -sws 6 luma bicubic / chroma bilinear r
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60 -sws 7 gauss low sharpness B
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61 high sharpness AM
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62 -sws 8 sinc R
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63 -sws 9 lanczos long filter R
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64 short filter b
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65 -sws 10 bicubic spline r
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67 Notes:
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68 area upscale is identical to bilinear
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