Which one directshow filter to resize the image ?

I'm looking for some filter that will enable me to watch videos in the resolution same as desktop or resized to window size. Right now I'm using GOM player and it's feature 'full screen streched' but GOM is not a player I like and would like to use everyday. I love CinemaPlayer which is based on directshow filters but this player is no longer maintained and so I'm looking for ways to achieve my goal. I've tried ffdshow and it's feature to resize BUT it takes too much CPU and calculating power from my older graphics that it's pointless, I'm loosing about 40-50% frames.

Have you tried media player classic homecinema?

Well, usually resizing is not the job of a (decoder) filter, it's the job of the video renderer! Using a good renderer (such as Haali's Video Renderer) should make any "software resizing" (e.g. ffdshow's resize feature) superfluous. So you should try Media Player Classic (maybe the "Home Cinema Edition") together with Haali's Video Renderer. Make sure you set "Output" to "Haali's Video Render". Also note that Haali's Renderer has options to adjust the sharpness... Media Player Classic - Latest build by CLSID: Haali Media Splitter (inlcudes Haali's Video Renderer):

the picture is black because you graphics card is quite old! probably does not have shaders (haali requires shader model 1 at least do render video). Use VMR 9 renderless instead and use 3d surfaces along with bilinear resizer, because the others use pixel shader 2 that you don't have (except for nearest neighbor). what's your graphics card?

i think haali video renderer will do resizing when u play ur video at fullscreen mode ,automatically ;)

you are missing the point here. ffdshow is a video decoder and post processor while haali renderer is the video renderer. every video renderer does resizing automatically but haali uses shaders and thus providing superior video quality for resized videos. example: if you force ffdshow to resize a video from 700x400 to 1024x576(supposing that this is the full screen resolution) then the renderer will not have to do any resizing. but if ffdshow feeds the video at 700x400 and you put it in full screen the video renderer will resize it to 1204x576 (the full screen resolution). every renderer requires some specific hardware capabilities from your graphics card, like 3d surfaces or shaders, and every renderer resizes the image if the window size is not the same as the original frame size. it doesn't matter if your graphics card is good or not if you are using ffdshow to resize the video. i'm recommending haali because it provides superior video quality because it uses shaders and bicubic resizing along with some more stuff. to sum it up: you use ffdshow resizing if the video renderer provides poor resizing quality. you use haali to save cpu power while having great resized videos if you have a gpu with the minimum requirements (PS2.0). another example: if you resize a 720p video to 1080p (assuming that 1920x1080 is the full screen resolution) with ffdshow it will require a very powerful cpu while you can do the same using your gpu and haali with minimal cpu impact. remember that every renderer does resizing automatically.

Then force an aspect ratio with ffdshow resizer, I think that for 1024x768 its 4:3. In ffdshow resize use "specify aspect ratio" and use values of 4:3 and put resize always. then the video will have the same apsect ratio as your display and finally the video render will only have to resize to fullscreen filling the entire screen. In my case I prefer to see the video with it's original aspect ratio (my screen is 1680x1050 16:10) and I don't mind the black borders, but some people force stretch to window to avoid burn-in in plasma screens. [EDIT]Instead of using "specify aspect ratio" option use the other one below with the sliders.[/EDIT] [EDIT2]Nevermind the edit above[/EDIT2]

Never used it before. I only use MPC HC. tried several others like mplayer, vlc, winamp,WiMP, bsplayer,kmp (I liked this one too) etc ... But in the end I stayed with MPC because of the superior configurability, simplicity, custom filter priority etc.

This is a feature dependent upon a player using pan & scan. I've seen it in KMP (Screen Controls - Full Screen:Overscan), BSplayer (movie mode), GOM. Zoom player must have it too.