Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Balazic wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've been toying with this idea to use the video overlay feature
> > as an efficient anti alias method. Is this doable ?
> >
> > Here is how it would work :
> >
> > set the display to some resolution ( higher is better )
> > render your picture  ( at a lower , same or higher resolution than the
> > display )
> > use the overlay to scale the picture to the physical screen
> >
> > cards with good scaling ( filtering etc. ) would make a nice
> > smoothed picture , right ?
> 
>    Blurrying pictures is not antialiasing them.  Antialiasing
> is subpixel rendering implemented by calculating partial-pixel
> coverage and mixing the partial-pixel coverages to get an
> unaliased pixel.  Video overlays don't do this.

Video overlays perform some filtering , right ?

antialias is usualy = supersampling + low-pass filtering.
supersampling : use higher resolution
low-pass : use overlay hardware

Am I missing something ?
I admit I don't know how usually overlay filtering/resizing works.
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