In transcoding, quantization and other techniques could result in lower video output quality. To address this problem a novel super-resolution (SR) algorithm based on irregular sampling (IS) is presented in this paper. The high-resolution (HR) frame is obtained as an interpolation of one or more previous frames; the resulting interpolated frame has samples non-uniformly spaced in the areas where movement happened. To reconstruct the irregular sampled frame we use a well-known irregular sampling algorithm modified to perform in 2-D space. Moreover, because SR algorithms are in general computationally expensive, we also present a hardware feasibility study. The proposed solution does not target any specific application but we have specifically tested the algorithm in a transcoding environment. In particular, we have applied it to VC-1 to H.264 transcoding and applied down/up sampling. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves video quality significantly.