DScaler

DScaler is a free software for real-time playback of digital video sources ( mainly analog TV cards). Goal in the development of DScaler was to achieve the best possible picture quality especially on devices with high image resolution. A special feature are the various deinterlacing filter that significantly better quality than most (even commercial ) programs to TV viewing. In addition DScaler also offers many additional filters to the video signal to improve, for example, noise reduction, sharpening and gamma correction.

DScaler requires the use of analog TV cards no drivers, as it directly accesses the hardware of the chip sets used the map. Although the program is not compliant, but increases the performance and usability of this software.

The following chips are supported:

• Brooktree BT 8x8 (acquired by Conexant )
• Philips SAA 713x
• Conexant CX 2388x

Also many of the analog tuner cards are supported, in general, these are also automatically detected. In addition, a variety of video ( S-video) inputs of the cards. The version 5 of the software is " at an early stage of development " (so far can only be tested with the MPEG - filter). In this version, then the software will not be able to access the hardware directly, but use the drivers to reduce the load on the processor.