Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

blogs.nvidia.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 167 posts

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

#111

Post by barbazoo »

tristor wrote: post #97
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 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.

how wasteful. why not giving them away or selling them?

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

#112

Post by tehnub »

wackget wrote: post #91

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.

For VLC I don't know, but with MPC-HC you can use madVR [0]. My preferred setup is mpv [1] with a few shaders [2] such as FSRCNNX [3] and Krig Bilateral.

[0]: https://madvr.com/

[1]: https://mpv.io/

[2]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/User-Scripts#user-sha...

[3]: https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases

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

#113

Post by interestica »

dang wrote: post #76
gtirloni wrote: post #3

Official article is more useful: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/02/28/rtx-video-super-res...

Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618245/nvidia-rtx-video... . Thanks!

Can you have some sort of bot do comments like these in a thread as a sort of changelog? Sometimes comments are referring to a previous link or a previous headline.

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

#114

Post by 0cVlTeIATBs »

litiholofan wrote: post #87

It 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?

The most egregious example I know of is a "60fps audio video sync test" now only available in 30fps

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

#115

Post by midoridensha »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #54
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…

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.

Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. I don't have an Nvidia device, but I do have an Android/Google TV. I really don't care about all the "recommended" crap on the home screen; I just ignore it all, and use my remove to skip down to the SmartTubeNext icon and open that app to watch YouTube videos ad-free (no sponsor messages either!). Or I use a different button that leaves the home screen and takes me to a file manager to view the files I've loaded on my USB stick so I can watch those (I decline to say where these files came from exactly). These are the only 2 things I need out of a TV.

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

#116

Post by wolfi1 »

b112 wrote: post #108
samtheprogram wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highly unlikely, we’re talking about Google here.

One day, the future may regard YouTube, as BBC, who recycled and overwrote Dr Who tapes to save a few bucks. And lost handsomely as a result.

in fact, unfortunately, almost every TV station did that in that time, some of them preserved their material on film, but unfortunately not all of their material

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

#117

Post by brokenmachine »

lmm wrote: post #106
brokenmachine wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree with this. I've been using an Ubuntu system for ages with Nvidia and it regularly needs a reinstall of the drivers when it randomly decides to come up in some silly low resolution, like 320x240 or something. My next linux GPU is AMD.

With the first-party NVidia drivers? I've never had that happen or even heard of it happening before now. Admittedly I don't use Ubuntu much, and they sound like the kind of distro that would silently auto-update your kernel or something, which would produce that kind of failure mode? (Which is at least a clean immediate failure on reboot that you can fix immediately, rather than something that crashes in the middle…

Yes, the .run drivers from Nvidia.

It only happens on a reboot, not while I'm using it, and only maybe once a month, but it's still annoying because I have to ssh in to reinstall the drivers every time.

And here I was all hyped that AMD would be my savior. I hope you're wrong!!

I'll find out for myself the next time I upgrade and I switch the current AMD card that I'm using on my Windows PC into the ubuntu system.

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

#118

Post by cvs268 »

gtirloni wrote: post #79
rolenthedeep wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what else did you expect? A blank screen with just the Netflix icon? Yes > Are the Netflix recommendations ads too? Yes

We're entering troll space, I see.

Not really.

it's just that the tolerance towards unsolicited promotional material / ads varies from person to person.

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

#119

Post by maximus-decimus »

litiholofan wrote: post #87

It 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 should probably download all the old music videos I care about before it's too late

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

#120

Post by [deleted] »

bee_rider wrote: post #12

Old games like Quake always look pretty janky when upscaled (extreme example of course). The low-poly models seem to become worse the closer you can look at them. I wonder if there’s a level of detail that just fundamentally can be upscaled indefinitely and end up vaguely “looking right”, or if it is just the case that something like Apex Legend was release recently enough that the lift is not so huge.

[deleted]
Post reply on HN