How to get ffdshow and Dscaler to play nice?

In ffdshow you can load different profiles based on the resolution of the video.

Does that help?

I don't know what you mean by "not playing nice". Can you be more specific?

I don't know about with media player classic but with Zoomplayer you could. With zoom you can specify which codecs to run based on just file extension, otherwise you are trying to use two different decoders for the same mpeg2 data. (at least that's what the system will think.)
Simply define different profiles in zoom for .ts or .tp or .mpg or .ifo or .vob or whatever. Well maybe simply isn't the right word, zoom can be daunting until you get a feel for it but that functionality is there and not too hard to set up.

Is this exactly what you are asking for?

Do you find dscaler is that much better for hd? I use straight purevideo for hd and then ffdshow plus upscaling and sharpening for dvd, divx, and xvid.

In fact I haven't even tried dscaler for some time now, since ffdshow handles everything so well but I'm open to other opinions. Why dscaler and IVTC over others?

Troy

Cause they will extract the 24fps film rate out of 30fps flagged 1080i material, for smooth playback at 48/72/96hz.

You need the Unofficial 1080i version of the Dscaler decoder .

Purevideo won't do that. The Nvidia drivers are supposed to, but they don't work properly.

The 1080i version of Dscaler just works. Does it in software so it will work on any video card. You need to set the IVTC mode to Always Enabled and the frame rate to 23.976/24fps.

Mark