Nvidia’s awesome new RTX Video Super Resolution feature is about to get even higher. When the know-how launched earlier this yr, promising AI-enhanced video upscaling to do away with blurry internet movies, it solely supported movies performed in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Today, alongside the launch of the $599 GeForce RTX 4070, Nvidia revealed that VideoLAN’s legendary VLC media player can also be gaining RTX Video Super Resolution help in the present day.

Yesssssss.

Bringing VLC into the fold means RTX Video Super Resolution can now work its magic in your offline video assortment too—clearly a humongous boon for cinephiles. Nvidia’s function places the AI tensor cores discovered inside GeForce RTX 30- and 40-series graphics playing cards to work by beautifying ugly video. It can upscale low-resolution movies to increased resolutions and run your video by means of an algorithm that softens the darks that are inclined to get crushed and blown out and blocky whereas additionally sharpening high-contrast areas (like person interface components).

In my expertise utilizing RTX Video Super Resolution for the net, video appeared considerably higher whenever you’re viewing streams with polished manufacturing values and excessive bitrates, equivalent to on Netflix or Disney+. It’s particularly good for anime and cartoons. Fast-paced motion with decrease bitrates (equivalent to Call of Duty Twitch streams) don’t are inclined to see as a lot profit. I’d wager that the native video saved on many individuals’s PCs will look wonderful seen by means of RTX Video’s AI-enhanced lens, although I haven’t had an opportunity to mess around with it but.

Of course, you’ll want to ensure each your GeForce drivers and VLC are working the newest builds to unlock the function.

RTX Video Super Resolution does enhance the facility output of your graphics card and may have an effect on efficiency if you happen to’re taking part in video games and watching upscaled movies on the similar time. You’ll additionally have to manually activate it and select a top quality stage in Nvidia’s clunky Control Panel. All that mentioned, the function remains to be very a lot value utilizing and maybe even contemplating whenever you’re shopping for a new graphics card—it’s principally DLSS for crappy movies. Our deep-dive into RTX Video Super Resolution explains all, full with efficiency benchmarks for nerds.