This is a shot in the dark - but, is anyone aware of software (OSX) that will upscale videoTS files to 1080 when playing back via DVDPedia, MediaCentral etc?
Thanks
Joe

I always understood that OSX and the graphics card did the scaling to whatever resolution you have the computer set to when you do full screen display. So if you're computer is set to 1080 and you do full screen, then the output is scaled for you.

I have been known to be wrong on more than one occasion. If I am someone here will most certainly correct me. ;)

Thanks, I think you are right and my G5 matches the resolution of my Fujitsu plasma quite nicely. My question relates more to the resolution of standard DVDs played with the Apple DVD player - I see many DVD players that "upscale" standard res DVDs to 1080. I was wondering if there is any hardware or software solution for the Apple platform that would achieve the same thing.
Thanks again.

When a Mac recognizes and "matches" the correct res of a display, and then you open up Apple's dvd player app, that's NOT what a standalone "upscaling" or "upconverting" dvd player does. That standalone player has additional specialized hardware, processing and algorithms which it applies to enhance that compressed information on the dvd. There's been confusion about this in this forum since day one--Apple dvd player app has always been a poor deinterlacer and doesn't have the capability to do any of this enhanced processing, adjustment for particular display types, correction or make educated guesses about what that standard def dvd should look like when played back on a higher res digital display.

I was wondering if there is any hardware or software solution for the Apple platform that would achieve the same thing.

No, and that's why we've complained about Apple dropping development of its dvdplayer.app years ago--it's failed to keep adequate pace with what's possible on the Windows side of things or even with inexpensive standalone dvd players. There's no equivalent in OS X for any number of the good Windows apps which can enhance standard dvd playback.

It's also why many of us talk about the ability of Macs to record high def via firewire, QAM and OTA, in that area we've always been ahead of the Windows side.

That's what he just said.. The DVD Player application uses a video overlay from the video card to play the DVD video. That overlay can be changed in size on your desktop or expanded to full screen. The video card scales the video to the necessary display resolution. So, yes, it is doing upscaling.

The secondary question is what is the quality of the upscaling, and does ATI/NVidia scaling compare to Faroudja hardware scaling or software pre-processor scaling. That's a personal preference issue.. Try it out and see if you notice any difference.

It's also display-specific... my SXRD XBR-1 has great upscaling (and so far I'm one of the lucky ones that has no green-blob issues!). I run the ripped Star Trek Insurrection disc w/ DVD Player from my mini ->DVI->HDMI->SXRD and honestly get no skips or jaggies on the huge pans at the opening credits (read that this is a good test). I am quite satisfied with SD dvds (ripped or direct) using DVD Player.

No, and that's why we've complained about Apple dropping development of its dvdplayer.app years ago--it's failed to keep adequate pace with what's possible on the Windows side of things or even with inexpensive standalone dvd players. There's no equivalent in OS X for any number of the good Windows apps which can enhance standard dvd playback.
This is a really unfair statement without mentioning that Apple has indeed resumed development of dvdplayer.app in a big way, and the happy results can be seen in Leopard.