SMPlayer Support Forum

I sharpened the video-quality, using smplayer's 'video' drop-down-menu and other times using unsharp (--vf-add=unsharp=la= --vf-add=unsharp=ca= --vf-add=lavfi=[unsharp=luma_amount=] --vf-add=unsharp=luma_amount=)

the problem is the lag these filters generate. Do you know any alternative to increase video-sharpness without lag? My smplayer plays videos via the mpv window.
When it gets the same sharpness as my stand-alone mpv, it lags while the stand-alone plays no problem. Do you know if the normal stand-alone mpv (which uses sharpen=3) has any additional settings (or a variation of sharpening) I could use in smplayer to play sharp videos without lag? Thank you.

add --vo=gpu and sharpen=3 works. ~no lag for low quality videos. So for low-end computers instead of using mpv's sharpen, download reshade and activate lumasharpen.fx with settings of [sharpening strength=3], [sharpening limit=1], [sample pattern = normal], [offset bias= 1]. also maybe add the following in mpv.conf

scale=bilinear
cscale=bilinear
dscale=bilinear
scale-antiring=0
cscale-antiring=0
dither-depth=no
correct-downscaling=no
sigmoid-upscaling=no
deband=no
hwdec=no

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these are optional settings i use so far
--config=yes --force-window --audio-display=attachment --fullscreen=yes --volume=100 --sub-pos=50 --sub-color=#ffbf00 --sub-border-size=3 --keepaspect=no --af-clr --vo=gpu