Scanlines for Movies?

Is there a convenient way to add a scanline filter to non-HD movies similar to Framemeister/OSSC? I mostly use Kodi and don't have either of those boxes or an SLG. I sometimes watch older rips of VHS-quality stuff and I thought it might be interesting to get that CRT effect on an HDTV instead of just stretching and scaling.

If you add scanlines to video in the same way as you do with videogames you'd essentially be halving the resolution, which is great for that Windows 3.1 AVI look but awful for any sort of real quality.

The key here is in the scaling and deinterlacing, but most pirate rips of VHS were done with awful equipment so there's not much you can do. If you were using a real VCR you could hook it up to a nice upscaling device such as a DVDO Duo to make it look halfway decent.

Old analog videos were encoded in fields right, alternating to produce a 30fps image? So... were scanlines evident in old school VHS? I honestly can't remember... Nonetheless, I get what you're going for, maybe it'll make that shit(ily?) encoded video look less turdish...
side note, the first VCR I got in my room had a wired remote...wired. top loader too... I was the shit in 1990. Later, the first porn I ever watched, "love me, love my butt 2", was on that very VCR... 1994 was a magical year.

Carless Walker said:

Later, the first porn I ever watched, "love me, love my butt 2", was on that very VCR... 1994 was a magical year.

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That honestly sounds really pathetic.

oh, it is. truly.

don't let that faggot up there tell you what's pathetic. watching porn on the original hardware is dope!! HMG is just mad that his face isn't buried in ST's boipussy right now

Sylvie said:

don't let that faggot up there tell you what's pathetic. watching porn on the original hardware is dope!! HMG is just mad that his face isn't buried in ST's boipussy right now

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To play devils advocate, you'd think if anyone knew what was pathetic, HMG would be the de facto expert.

daskrabs said:

Is there a convenient way to add a scanline filter to non-HD movies similar to Framemeister/OSSC? I mostly use Kodi and don't have either of those boxes or an SLG. I sometimes watch older rips of VHS-quality stuff and I thought it might be interesting to get that CRT effect on an HDTV instead of just stretching and scaling.

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Wut?

FilthyRear said:

Wut?

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Fagit shit.

Carless Walker said:

Old analog videos were encoded in fields right, alternating to produce a 30fps image? So... were scanlines evident in old school VHS? I honestly can't remember...

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Old NTSC and PAL video is interlaced. Basically two 240p images interlaced/interleaved in spacetime at 60 alternating even-odd fields-per-second, making for 30 full frame field-pairs per second. The dark scanlines from a 240p image are occupied by the interlacing/interleaving fields of the even-odd scan-pair, creating a "solid" image. One of the issues was that fast-moving images would "comb" due to image changes between fields (or I guess you could call them sub-frames).

The first porno I watched on VHS was "The Devil in Miss Jones 2: Give 'Em Hell" - the one where Ron Jeremy sucks his own dick. I was lucky enough to have Picture-in-Picture (PiP) back in the day, which was a big deal at the time. I'd put the porno and Super Nintendo on at the same time on the same screen for extra fun. I can tell ya, not much has changed in my life.