AA on live video input?

[elMucho]

PS2/xbox(360) have some nice games going for them, but personally the
aliasing/jaggies are putting be off a bit. (No, this is not a console post )

I was wondering if anyone has come upon a solution as to take a live
video feed (like from a console) via Video-IN and use the pixel pushing
powers of a current gen video card to get some antialiasing (or other
image enhancement) applied to the video?

Tried searching around, but only got results for capturing live video
to disk or some video editing suites that were able to antialias ticker
texts and the likes. Other results were software scalers but most just
"rescale" the picture for the chosen output device without applying AA.

Are there any tools out there to use our nvidia/ati cards for realtime
effects on live video? Any ideas?

 

[texuspete00]

They have stuff to clean up video. I think what you're after won't work because there is no 3d engine persay. It's just a bunch of flat colors. It didn't map the x,y,z coordinates of the person's nose you're seeing for instance.

 

[pxc]

Nope. You're not going to get more detail than the console output supplies. You can use composite in to get a "softer" look.

Even if you could blur the image (you can with certain video capture programs), why would you want to?

Of course you can always try to write an image processing shader to soften the edges. But that will require specialized knowledge in a few areas.

 

[Hartz]

You can play xbox 360 on a smaller tv ?

 

[elMucho]

You can play xbox 360 on a smaller tv ?

Yes. Basically you can play the xbox360 on any TV you like as its
downward compatible.

Only when you want to take advantage of the HD resolution you
need a TV/LCD/plasma/beamer marked with "HD ready" for example.

 

[elMucho]

Of course you can always try to write an image processing shader to soften the edges. But that will require specialized knowledge in a few areas .

Since there are a lot of AA / AF options you can activate on current graphiccards, I had assumed the basic shaders might already be available.

nVidia quotes or thier "NVIDIA PureVideo Decoder":

Jagged edges are smoothed with spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and advanced scaling technologies.

This image enhancement is done in realtime - but the decoder only
works with prerecorded videos / DVDs and not on live video input.

I'll keep digging.