Resizing with ffdshow

[cipher]

I am trying to use ffdshow with SageTVClient to resize the output but it uses so much CPU that it causes some skipping in playback and lags the SageTV UI to the point of unusability. I'm using ffdshow 20041012 as a post processing filter in SageTVClient 2.2.8 (videoframe/video_postprocessing_filter=ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder) and the lastest NVIDIA decoder. I have configured ffdshow to just resize using Point method (the fastest/lowest quality) to 1440x960 from 720x480. It gobbles up 85 - 95% of the CPU. I'm running a 2.8GHz P4, 512 MB Corsair XMS, BFG 6800GT. Normal playback without ffdshow uses about 10% CPU load. My machine is close to the specs used in the article at http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1 which is doing much more than a simple resize. Any ideas to improve the performance of SageTVClient w/ffdshow? ( other than getting a super computer :P ) Thanks

[GbrNole]

you need to stick another filter before the resize. do a "gradual denoise 25" and then your resize and that should help.

resize all by itself can be a bugger. also use v3 full screen exclusive if you can get it to work and that will help a lot.

[cipher]

Thanks, that helped a bit, got the CPU load down to 50 - 70% but still too high to be usable.