VLC Media Player Gets NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution Support

btarunr · Apr 12, 2023

VLC Media Player, or VideoLAN Client, the popular open-source video/audio playback and streaming application, is receiving support for NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution, the company announced today. This would allow VLC to take advantage of the feature to vastly improve upscaled video quality. Many of the same techniques used in DLSS, are used for video upscaling, and attempted-reconstruction of detail. Some of these techniques have been around in the MadVR community as AI DNN-accelerated upscaler algorithms. The new feature should come as a boon for those with vast locally stored libraries of 1080p videos and a larger 4K Ultra HD display to view them on. VideoLAN is expected to release an update to VLC later today (April 12) with RTX Video Super Resolution support.

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chodaboy19 · Apr 12, 2023

This is great! Maybe eventually we'll get support at the OS level?

Smaeili · Apr 12, 2023

Finally I'll be able to watch my old porn videos in 4k!

CosmicWanderer · Apr 12, 2023

chodaboy19 said:
This is great! Maybe eventually we'll get support at the OS level?

There's no way NVIDIA will allow MS to have it for free, and I doubt MS will be willing to pay for it.

Luke357 · Apr 12, 2023

All my low bitrate 720/1080p "stuff" will look great in 1440p now!

shk021051 · Apr 12, 2023

mpc pls

RegaeRevaeb · Apr 12, 2023

Smaeili said:
Finally I'll be able to watch my old porn videos in 4k!

You beat me to the punch. Notwithstanding how this benefits end-user fans of old shows or adult content, I can see production companies going, er, balls deep into their back catalogs to quasi-remaster classics on the cheap before offering them for a premium.

Wirko · Apr 12, 2023

Smaeili said:
Finally I'll be able to watch my old porn videos in 4k!

Well, if the AI has been trained by watching lots of highest-res porn then the result will be as you're expecting. If not, you'll be getting strange artifacts all the time.

ThrashZone · Apr 12, 2023

Hi,
Not a very good example luckily I don't have a rtx card so it doesn't matter.

Alan Smithee · Apr 13, 2023

WARNING, this story has been circulating on various sites and is highly misleading as most of the sites (thankfully not Techpowerup) say "download the latest VLC" to get VSR support. The latest version as I'm typing this (3.0.18) does NOT have VSR support. Most of this nonsense came from Techspot who is self-hosting a copy of (presumably) the VLC daily unsupported build which they call "Windows RTX Beta" (there is no such thing). The VLC forums don't even explicitly confirm that change #27975 has been checked in. If VSR support is in 3.0.19, it's probably not releasing today April 12 because there are at least 2 blocking-class bugs including black screen playing AVI & WMV.

It's a shame this whole story got out prematurely because people are going to download "the latest version" and see no difference. Later when the actual VSR supporting version of VLC comes out it will be lost in the noise because the news cycle has already occurred.

wrathchild_67 · Apr 13, 2023

shk021051 said:
mpc pls

Already available.

kapone32 · Apr 13, 2023

Alan Smithee said:
WARNING, this story has been circulating on various sites and is highly misleading as most of the sites (thankfully not Techpowerup) say "download the latest VLC" to get VSR support. The latest version as I'm typing this (3.0.18) does NOT have VSR support. Most of this nonsense came from Techspot who is self-hosting a copy of (presumably) the VLC daily unsupported build which they call "Windows RTX Beta" (there is no such thing). The VLC forums don't even explicitly confirm that change #27975 has been checked in. If VSR support is in 3.0.19, it's probably not releasing today April 12 because there are at least 2 blocking-class bugs including black screen playing AVI & WMV.

It's a shame this whole story got out prematurely because people are going to download "the latest version" and see no difference. Later when the actual VSR supporting version of VLC comes out it will be lost in the noise because the news cycle has already occurred.

Thank you for that information. We need more of this on TPU. Something has to be done about the disinformation that is proliferating our societies.

A Computer Guy · Apr 13, 2023

kapone32 said:
Thank you for that information. We need more of this on TPU. Something has to be done about the disinformation that is proliferating our societies.

The building up of credible sources is probably the best way sadly the race to headlines and clicks tends to get in the way. (in general)

Smaeili said:
Finally I'll be able to watch my old porn videos in 4k!

Sometimes you can get much higher definition (>8k) leaving some things to the imagination!

Minus Infinity · Apr 13, 2023

But will it do a lot better job than the upscaling in the TV? Would be nice to see a comparison.

jarza · Apr 13, 2023

Waiting to get software that uses this feature so I can upscale my dvd collection to better quality

unwind-protect · Apr 14, 2023

Upscaling like this has been available in ffmpeg filters for a while. That's where I got my "4k" Babylon 5 from. They're just too slow for real-time, so the result sits on my harddrive upscaled.

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