Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

jjbinx007 wrote: post #2

I've just tried this and I can't tell any difference. Could it be because my laptop has an Intel and an nVidia 3060 I wonder?

From what I can see on Reddit it's just not working for some people - I can't see the difference on my desktop no matter what I try.

You need to set the video source lower than your monitor resolution and possible set chrome to high power mode (details here: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5448). Maybe that'll help you - it hasn't for me.

Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

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Post by ChrisRR » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

jjbinx007 wrote: post #2

I've just tried this and I can't tell any difference. Could it be because my laptop has an Intel and an nVidia 3060 I wonder?

Have you tried this?

> To enable it, launch the NVIDIA Control Panel and open “Adjust video image settings.” Check the super resolution box under “RTX video enhancement” and select a quality from one to four — ranging from the lowest impact on GPU performance to the highest level of upscaling improvement.

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Post by RajT88 » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 4:15 PM UTC

sys32768 wrote: post #4

I wonder whether this will work on uncompressed video such as .AVI or .MOV? I have some HD 8mm transfers that I would like to try out 4k on.

I would love to use this to make more watchable some of the weird crap from the 70's I have kicking around on my NAS.

My favorite and weirdest thing from the 70's, which is only available as barely-watchable youtube vids:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078697/

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Post by freedomben » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Android games, and hosting a Plex server (although I now use Jellyfin hosted on a raspberry pi). If Nvidia would open source their Linux driver (or at least drastically improve support), I'd be a huge fan. I highly recommend, despite the fact that I'm mad at them for the pain they cause me on Linux. Buy AMD cards if you run Linux).

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Post by netruk44 » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #8

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

I also have an Nvidia shield that now sits unused for the simple reason that Google forced ads onto the home screen.

It used to be that the Shield was the one bastion away from ads on Android TV, then with one update that somehow manages to reinstall itself despite being completely disconnected from the internet, there are now permanently ads on my Nvidia Shield TV.

I honestly don't know why it's such a big deal for me, but I basically never use it anymore. It's real shame, I got a lot of good use out of it, because as you mention the support has been going on for years now. But I will not subject myself to ads if I can help it. I pay for Youtube to avoid ads, I pay for Twitch to avoid ads. I can't pay to remove ads from my Android TV homescreen (that I didn't even have for the past like 5 years)

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Post by lfkdev » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #8

I've been blown away at the AI upscaling on the Nvidia Shield. On my fairly large 4K TV, the Shield can produce picture quality that looks incredible out of source that isn't all that great. On that note, the Shield has been an unexpectedly great purchase over the years. Long life of support from Nvidia, runs Google TV, works incredibly as a gaming console for Steam Linking into my PC and/or playing compatible Androi…

Yes, another + from me for the shield. After ~ 5 years now, still running great. Using it for Kodi/SmartYoutube/Steam-streaming. Only had to remove the inner dust last year