Topic: A possible idea?

I don't know if this has been brought up before, or whether it's even practical, but is it possible to interpolate whatever is shown on the monitor instead of just within the video player? That way SVP doesn't have to worry about ffdshow, LAV, VapourSynth, or any other filter for any video player. It only intercepts the picture coming from the GPU to the monitor and interpolates it that way. I realize there'll probably be a fraction of a second delay from what would normally be shown on the screen to the new interpolated picture, but from novice point of view, it would just seem easier overall. Certain televisions from Samsung, Sony, and LG have smooth motion options built into it, so this would be like the software version of that. Of course, maybe there's a technical reason why it wouldn't be practical that I'm not seeing.

  • MAG79
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Re: A possible idea?

Hardware realizations of MCFI in modern TVs are more suitable to the task you described.

Re: A possible idea?

@roswell19point5

You said it yourself. Samsung, Sony, and other TV manufacturers do this because the TV's themselves have their own processing power built into them. Even if it is possible, doing this on PC all the time means you will be using your CPU & GPU resources all the time, diminishing from their capability to do their tasks at their full capability. Yes SVP is a software that does motion interpolation, but it uses YOUR Hardware to do it. So the TV's doing it, also use their own hardware to do these tasks.