Downscaling with Hermite - mpv-player/mpv GitHub Wiki

As of c172a65, the default downsampling kernel in mpv has been changed to --dscale=hermite to match libplacebo's defaults.

The rationale behind this change is explained in this talk from VDD 2023:

WATCH: Faster (and better) GPU (down)scaling in libplacebo by Niklas Haas (haasn)