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

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

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Post by slashtom »

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…

My biggest issue with the Shield is that they still have not implemented refresh rate match across the OS, which all it will take is an update to the OS since google has implemented it.

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

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Post by silverwasthere »

pjmlp wrote: post #17
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…

> Buy AMD cards if you run Linux). Experience shows that in practice they also aren't much better than Nvidia in regards to Linux.

Anything that uses qt will suffer on nvidia.

There are pros and cons of each by radeon will get you a more intel like experience.

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

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Post by rektide »

pjmlp wrote: post #17
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…

> Buy AMD cards if you run Linux). Experience shows that in practice they also aren't much better than Nvidia in regards to Linux.

I dont feel like I share the same planet with this comment. AMD on Linux is vastly widely better in almost every way. Nvidia is a terrible partner & the binary/closed/proprietary drivers they offer have tons of wrinkles/issues, and whether Nvidia even bothers supporting modern capabilities everyone else agrees on is forever & seemingly always will be in question.

Nvidia's whole role in life seems to be competing against standards. Everyone else heads one way, Nvidia tries to out-compete by making their own. Oh great, there's DLSS support in the new binary driver... FSR only works because AMD did it at a share-able level. FreeDesktop is making GBM? Let's invent EGLStreams & insist on that for a decade. Nvidia has no visible cooperative spirit.

AMD has good drivers, super reliable, worked on by a wide variety of the gaming/computer-graphics industry/world. There's a huge trove of Proton games that run exceedingly well & without fail: proof positive that AMD has the situation down.

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

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Post by rektide »

zamadatix wrote: post #28
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…

For the newer GPUs nvidia's open kernel modules have created less hair pulling for me and are much more comparable to amdgpu than the traditional modules. Recently I was reading Nouveau is working on re-clocking support on newer GPUs via GSP support which is just starting to be upstreamed, that'll be even nicer if it materializes.

It's good that there's at least some way to load the whole scmorgasboard of proprietary drivers/firmware now that doesnt constantly break, but this is still so far from great.

Nvidia picks & chooses what to implement. If they deign do work at all. And actually open-source Nouveau is wonderful, but wow, they have like 1/20th the chip-maker resources to read-from/work-with & 1/20th the developer headcount of Intel or AMD open-source driver development. Phoronix is posting RADV stories every other week with cutting edge industry folk making this or that innovation, & Noveau shows up like quarterly maybe.

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

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Post by Wilkolicious »

dschuetz wrote: post #45

Currently only supported by Chrome and Edge. Other Chromium-based browsers seem not to be supported yet (e.g. Vivaldi). Firefox is probably not (yet) supported at all. Checked on Vivaldi and Edge with the Revolution OS video on Youtube.

Works on Brave for me.

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

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Post by kridsdale1 »

gtirloni wrote: post #16
netruk44 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

What kind of ads? I see recommendations for movies that I would have to purchase but not general ads in my Chromecast.

Those are ads.

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

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Post by mardifoufs »

rektide wrote: post #43
pjmlp wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Buy AMD cards if you run Linux). Experience shows that in practice they also aren't much better than Nvidia in regards to Linux.

I dont feel like I share the same planet with this comment. AMD on Linux is vastly widely better in almost every way. Nvidia is a terrible partner & the binary/closed/proprietary drivers they offer have tons of wrinkles/issues, and whether Nvidia even bothers supporting modern capabilities everyone else agrees on is forever & seemingly always will be in question. Nvidia's whole role in life seems to be competing agai…

Since when is FSR the standard, or even a standard at all? A part from AMD using it.

Also, in my experience Nvidia works just fine on linux, you just have to install their drivers. I literally never had an issue with them, and I use it professionally and for games. AMD is probably better if you want bleeding edge updates or use a rolling release distro, but the downside is that you still have to contend with some weird driver issues that aren't magically fixed just because the code is open source.

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

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Post by verall »

freedomben wrote: post #31
verall wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is possible to plug your shield into your PC and sideload a new launcher which doesn't have ads, it's not too difficult (tho installing adb is a hassle). I heard on reddit that if Nvidia even hints that this is possible, they violate the license agreements with Google, and then Google is allowed to yank the play store...

Do you know if it has to be plugged in to sideload a launcher? I sideload apps through wireless adb and it was pretty easy to get set up.

Should work but I haven't tried it

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

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Post by jayd16 »

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?

I tried it on my Ryzen laptop and was able to work. You need to use 360p video and apply the settings and then restart the video for it to kick in. To really tell a difference, you'll want to compare screen captures.
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