{"id":160087,"date":"2023-04-12T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=160087"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T05:07:06","slug":"nvidia-rtx-vsr-support-added-to-vlc-allows-you-to-watch-videos-in-super-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/nvidia-rtx-vsr-support-added-to-vlc-allows-you-to-watch-videos-in-super-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA RTX VSR support added to VLC allows you to watch videos in super resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular media player VLC has received an important update.\u00a0It now supports NVIDIA RTX VSR (Video Super Resolution) upscaling technology, which until now was only available in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.\u00a0To use VSR, you need to download the latest software from the developer&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing RTX Video Super Resolution - 4K AI Upscaling for Chrome &amp; Edge Video\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XA-tQpQqD7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In work, the technology uses artificial intelligence algorithms and tensor cores of video cards.\u00a0This combination allows you to improve the quality and sharpness of the video.<\/p>\n<p>You can activate VSR in the NCP control panel.\u00a0There, users have the opportunity to set one of four quality levels, where 1 is the lowest, 4 is the highest.\u00a0Levels 3 and 4 use the most sophisticated algorithms to get the highest possible picture quality &#8211; up to 4K resolution.\u00a0True, this requires significant GPU resources, so not all video cards will be able to cope with this task.\u00a0The first two levels do not load video cards so much, but they provide a rather noticeable improvement in quality.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_160088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular.jpg\" alt=\"The fact that the technology appeared in VLC is not an accident, as the media player is one of the most popular\" width=\"792\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-770x351.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-561x256.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-265x121.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-531x242.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-364x166.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-728x332.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-608x277.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/The-fact-that-the-technology-appeared-in-VLC-is-not-an-accident-as-the-media-player-is-one-of-the-most-popular-758x346.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fact that the technology appeared in VLC is not an accident, as the media player is one of the most popular<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NVIDIA RTX VSR technology is available on the RTX 30 and RTX 40 graphics cards with driver package 531.18 WHQL and later installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular media player VLC has received an important update.\u00a0It now supports NVIDIA RTX VSR (Video Super Resolution) upscaling technology, which until now was only available in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.\u00a0To use VSR, you need to download the latest software from the developer&#8217;s website. In work, the technology uses artificial intelligence algorithms and [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/nvidia-rtx-vsr-support-added-to-vlc-allows-you-to-watch-videos-in-super-resolution\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":160089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-160087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}