Best way to upscale a video?

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Published on 2010-04-20T15:11:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 16:13 UTC
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If I have a video file at 320x240 resolution which I want to re-encode (because I don't like the encoding it's in now) and I also want to play it at double size (640x480), will I get higher quality if I scale it up to 640x480 when I convert it to a new format, verses keeping it at 320x240 in the new format and playing it at double size?

This probably depends on the program used to convert, and if so, please let me know any program which might increase the quality.

Here's my thinking. If I play a 320x240 file at double size, the system has to scale up each frame in real time, whereas if I scale up while recompressing the system may be able to use a more intensive algorythm like Bicubic interpolation . However I am not sure if this is true or not.

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