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@@ -291,27 +291,29 @@ Available video output drivers are:
``lscale=<filter>``
``bilinear``
- Bilinear hardware texture filtering (fastest, low quality).
- This is the default.
+ Bilinear hardware texture filtering (fastest, very low quality).
+ This is the default for compatibility reasons.
``spline36``
Mid quality and speed. This is the default when using ``opengl-hq``.
- ``lanczos3``
- Lanczos scaling with radius=3. Provides mid quality and speed.
- Worse than ``spline36``.
+ ``lanczos``
+ Lanczos scaling. Provides mid quality and speed. Generally worse
+ than ``spline36``, but it results in a slightly sharper image
+ which is good for some content types. The number of taps can be
+ controlled with ``lradius``, but is best left unchanged.
- ``ewa_lanczos3``
- Elliptic weighted average Lanczos scaling filter. Also known as
- Jinc. Relatively slow, but very good quality.
+ ``ewa_lanczos``
+ Elliptic weighted average Lanczos scaling. Also known as Jinc.
+ Relatively slow, but very good quality. The number of taps can
+ be controlled with ``lradius``.
- ``ewa_lanczos4``
- Better quality than ``ewa_lanczos3``, but slower.
+ Adding extra taps makes the filter sharper but adds more ringing.
``mitchell``
Mitchell-Netravali. The ``b`` and ``c`` parameters can be set with
``lparam1`` and ``lparam2``. Both are set to 1/3 by default.
- Can be useful as special-purpose filter for downscaling.
+ This filter is very good at downscaling (see ``lscale-down``).
There are some more filters, but most are not as useful. For a complete
list, pass ``help`` as value, e.g.::
@@ -327,7 +329,7 @@ Available video output drivers are:
``lradius=<r>``
Set radius for filters listed below, must be a float number between 1.0
- and 8.0. Defaults to be 2.0 if not specified.
+ and 16.0. Defaults to be 3.0 if not specified.
``sinc``, ``lanczos``, ``ewa_lanczos``, ``blackman``, ``gaussian``