What's your best PQ setup?

[abiharbani]

I've finally came to a conclusion in my picture quality configuration quest.

Here's what I have:

TV Tuner: Avermedia m150
Video Renderer: Default
Video Decoder: Elecard 2.0 Video Decoder
Dscaler Deinterlacer: Enabled with Adaptive plugin
Audio Decoder: AC3Filter 1.0 RC 5
Additional Filter: ffdshow July 1 with SSE2 optimization

For Elecard decoder, I set deinterlacing to force Weave and let Dscaler deinterlacer handle the deinterlacing.

For ffdshow:
- Offset Chroma X -2, Chroma Y 2 (this is needed for my m150 problem with color being offset up and right.
- Blur & NR: Gradual denoise 30. I wanted to use Denoise3D but my cpu can't handle it with dscaler + resize
- Resize & aspect: 960 x 540, No aspect ratio correction, Warped resize. I have a 16:9 TV for my output. This is to simulate 'wide zoom'
- Sharpen: unsharp mask 20

My system is an Athlon 64 3200+ with 512MB memory, Radeon 9600 256M AGP 8x Fastwrite enabled.

I feel pretty good now watching anything without tweaking here and there. I used to tweak settings constantly when watching tv it drove my wife crazy.

What's your settings that you feel pretty good about and what kind of horse power does your cpu have?

By the way, the July 1st ffdshow with SSE2 runs at considerably lower cpu time on Pentium 4. Kinda wished that I had bought P4.