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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 mardifoufs »

krackpot wrote: post #37
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.

Is this true? I'm in the market for an AMD card just to switch over to linux. I'm on an old 1080. Most discussions centered around the various linux communities seem to parrot that AMD is the way to go now because of open source drivers etc. I always wonder how much of it is an echo chamber.

It depends. If you are willing to download proprietary drivers from nvidia, it literally just works. Though I'd probably suggest not getting on a rolling release distro, or any distro that is focused on mostly sticking with libre/foss solutions. Ubuntu works great with non free drivers, out of the box, so just use that. Kernel updates might be tricky on some distros, so sticking with more stable releases is preferable in my experience

(I have used AMD and NVIDIA cards, including a 4 GTX1070 cluster a few years back with mostly little issues on both. Also used GCN andRDNA1, and now I use nvidia on ubuntu for work and it just works.)

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

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Post by glenneroo »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #52

Will this also fix how youtube always starts high res videos at the lowest resolution making them look like crap until you manually reset it?

Perhaps this[0] plugin will help? It's only for Firefox but I'm sure there are equivalents for other browsers. You can set a plethora of options, including auto-selecting playback quality of videos, playlists, pop-up players, embedded videos, when in full-screen mode and more.

[0]: https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

netruk44 wrote: post #9
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…

The home screen ads are infuriating. I know it's Android, by Google, but I bought the freakin device. It wasn't cheap. And they added this retroactively. Shame on Google and shame on Nvidia for allowing it.

I used a 3rd party launcher but there wasn't a way (at the time) to make it the default.

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

verall wrote: post #49
freedomben wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That works. That's what I did

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

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Post by anotherman554 »

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…

Could you give an example of a TV show that blew you away when processed with Nvidia Shield's upscaling? I tried the feature while streaming HBO's Sopranos, going from 1080p to 4k and it didn't look any better to me, just slightly different with occasional artifacts. I didn't understand the hype around this feature.

I believe how good your TV's native upscaling will also be a factor in how improved the Shield's implementation looks.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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…

AMD decided that my APU card wasn't worth their time on the new open source driver. fxglr => OpenGL 4.1, AMD new open source driver => OpenGL 3.3, without hardware video acceleration.

Secondly, good luck having a go at any compute framework offering from AMD on Linux, unless working for some research lab doing HPC.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #20
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 They don't do CUDA, so they're useless.

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

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Post by thawkth »

anotherman554 wrote: post #56
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…

Could you give an example of a TV show that blew you away when processed with Nvidia Shield's upscaling? I tried the feature while streaming HBO's Sopranos, going from 1080p to 4k and it didn't look any better to me, just slightly different with occasional artifacts. I didn't understand the hype around this feature. I believe how good your TV's native upscaling will also be a factor in how improved the Shield's imple…

I can: Star Trek DS9 (DVD rips). I actually had forgotten the Shield was supposed to be doing AI upscaling since a lot of what I watched for a while was current.

I was midway through the series when I traveled somewhere else and used a Roku on a different TV - and it was instantly noticeable. When I got home, I plugged in a Chromecast Google TV to my TV (LG OLED) and watched parts of an episode.

The Shield TV made DS9 look significantly better.

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

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Post by gtirloni »

kridsdale1 wrote: post #47
gtirloni wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not like they're showing you ads about shoes or kitchen utensils. It's a TV appliance so.. what else did you expect? A blank screen with just the Netflix icon? Are the Netflix recommendations ads too?
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