Are there any software solutions for upscaling content on-the-fly as you watch it in a media player like VLC or MPC-HC?
Most televisions nowadays have built-in upscaling so you'd think something would exist for the desktop PC market.
Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
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I've been a year or so using Sponsor block in addition to basic ad blocking. Now any device that doesn't offer both simply is a complete non starter for me.
you mean something like that? https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/
That app is a godsend.
Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
#93Are there any software solutions for upscaling content on-the-fly as you watch it in a media player like VLC or MPC-HC? Most televisions nowadays have built-in upscaling so you'd think something would exist for the desktop PC market.
Most televisions only render at one resolution; they don't have the ability to dynamically resize the "window" of the player. I've always just assumed upscaling on the TV is just the same as fullscreening VLC on a large monitor.
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#94It is interesting that youtube is silently removing the ability to watch old videos in HD after making it difficult to sort by oldest on a channel. I have videos uploaded in 1080p 5 or so years ago now only giving the option to watch in 360p. Anyone else notice this?
I guess it's not exactly shocking... what better way to reduce their storage requirement than to downsample old and not-frequently-watched content.
I bet 95%+ of videos on the platform fall into this bucket.
Re: Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
#95It is interesting that youtube is silently removing the ability to watch old videos in HD after making it difficult to sort by oldest on a channel. I have videos uploaded in 1080p 5 or so years ago now only giving the option to watch in 360p. Anyone else notice this?
I guess it's not exactly shocking... what better way to reduce their storage requirement than to downsample old and not-frequently-watched content. I bet 95%+ of videos on the platform fall into this bucket.
Notification of this fact by youtube would've been nice to be honest - and perhaps a way to pay to keep them in high quality.
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I guess it's not exactly shocking... what better way to reduce their storage requirement than to downsample old and not-frequently-watched content. I bet 95%+ of videos on the platform fall into this bucket.
Notification of this fact by youtube would've been nice to be honest - and perhaps a way to pay to keep them in high quality.
Highly unlikely, we’re talking about Google here.
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#97I'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 had 5 Shields in my family I maintained/advised people to buy, they all went in the trash and got replaced by Apple TV as soon as Google callously and retroactively forced tracking and ads onto the Shield.
I loved what the Shield was, but what it is now is utterly unacceptable.
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> 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…
Some people's planet is graphics-only, and for them AMD is a great choice.
AMD is pretty great on Linux so long as you only ever want graphics. Once you want anything else out of their very-good-on-paper hardware, the experience starts to break down. You have to manually install/uninstall/reinstall their ever-shifting compute driver(s) and which driver you install (and the cadence at which said driver is updated, particularly for newer kernels) depends heavily on the device you have. E.g. I have a 5700XT and W5700, very similar hardware, yet supported by two very different drivers (I'll let you guess which one lags much farther behind - hint, it's for the more expensive card).
In contrast, Nvidia's driver has essentially always worked - I install the same driver on all my systems, and it gets updated frequently enough that it's always compatible with the current Ubuntu kernels. Over a dozen or so machines (personal, not counting work) over the last ~15 years, I've only encountered one or two serious issues with the Nvidia driver stack. Compare that to ~5 AMD machines over the last ~6 years where I've encountered at least one major issue per machine each year with the AMD driver stack.
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#99Is it handled by a browser extension? Curious if it might be hacked into Firefox. There's a suggestion to add "AMD FidelityFX or similar technology" here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/video-upscaling-in-brow...
It's a plug-in to the Windows ID3D11VideoProcessor API, https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:ui/...
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#100I'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…
Though the removal of Gamestream is a real pain, IMO. I'm still mad that Nvidia have done this, but am thankful that Sunshine exists.