Thread 106385667

What method of upscaling are you using to properly convert DVD anime to 720p/1080p? I was thinking of making a couple noteworthy chobits upscales and post them here as webp2 webms. I'm currently working with real esrgan and results look good.

Here is the standard bicubic upscale.

>>106385667 (OP)
For anime? MadVR

This would be the 720p downscale from the native 960p upscale.

>>106385697
No, I said PROPER. Real time upscalers are out of the question. Maybe some richfag can run real esrgan in real time but that's not me...

Here's the tiny DVD source frame while we wait for the 720p real esrgan result.

esrgan is a meme, just use profile=high-quality

>>106385724
720p to 1440p and back down to 1080p that is

>>106385667 (OP)
>>106385771

>school work school work
Gosh

>Slop Scaling
Fucking zoomers...

>>106385667 (OP)
why upscale? 720p is soul-full and good enough

>>106385667 (OP)
try realcugan, i had good results

I like the way AnimeSharp-4x looks. Honestly though I've gotten good results that run faster with Topaz Video Enhancement suite (Iris model). Pretty easy to pirate.

>>106385667 (OP)
>upscaling
>anime
Why don't you interpolate it to 120fps while you're at it you faggot

>>106386059
Most anime released on DVD will never get any kind of remaster so to be fair this is as good as it gets at least for slop clamp anime. Kind of weird thinking back they were the Japanese version of multi-universe disney slop today except it felt like you were being haunted because it's an uppity sentient AI that may or may not slit your throat in your sleep pretending? to be a dumb teenage girl of course, because Japan.

God I miss those times. The shows were dumb but the "oh shit" moments really stuck with you.

>>106386204
Looks kind of over-sharpened compared to the simple bicubic but it does also look stylized better. Interesting.

>>106385667 (OP)
>method of upscaling are you using to properly convert DVD anime to 720p/1080p
Does not exist.
There is no proper way to do this.
The only legitimate way to get higher resolution is to rescan the original production material, assuming analog media.
Accept the limitations of the original production and treat it a reminder of a better world.

>>106385667 (OP)
Whatever method my TV/playback device uses to scale 480p to my output resolution

>>106386544
What comes close? realesrgan seems to be trying to keep a lot of the original detail but realcugan seems to be trying to mimic human stylization at the cost of destroying original detail. Or is it really just different models trying to overcompensate for something? I kept hearing good things about realesrgan and thought this was going to be it...

>>106386059
Scaling can be done on old games and movies too.

>>106386640
See >>106386224

ASPECT RATIIIIOOOOOOO

>>106385667 (OP)
That really looks like shit

>>106385667 (OP)
Controversial opinion: even in 4k displays, native DVD res looks completely serviceable.

Lookin' good

SeedVR2 is the current video upscaler.

I calculated it would take about 36hours to do 22min on my old system (2080ti) with the 3B model.

It did seem to produce nice results on my test clip. There was ghosting when it was panning but my input video was 480x320 AVI with MPEG quality artifacts.

Big complex models like realesrgan dont work well for anime. You are better off making chatgpt write a python script for you and train a small model only using high quality anime with a similar style to the one you want to upscale. Just overfit the shit out of it and you will get better quality and less uncanny artifacts. I got better quality and real time upscaling with a homemade tiny model trained with just few thousand frames extracted from very similar content.
If you don't need real-time you can get even better results.

>>106385724
I apply a subtle film grain shader to make it pop, sort of like detail texturing in old unreal games but in motion. Besides that, it's all stock upscaling settings. Looks fine on my old 19'' monitor.

profile=gpu-hq
deband-grain=192
glsl-shader="~~/noise_static_chroma.hook"
glsl-shader="~~/noise_static_luma.hook"

I watch DVD on intended resolution and intended hardware.

i cant be bothered to (You) all those but imagine i did.
arr rook same

>>106387166
Is this the correct ratio? Characters seems elongated somehow.

>>106387994
Appears so, it's from aspect corrected rip. I remember watching it on a square monitor but maybe the studio adapted it for different types, such is the versatile nature of DVD releases.

>>106385697
/thread
Jinc + filters

>>106385667 (OP)
Fuck I hate that upscaling style.
Someone kill it with fire.

>>106385667 (OP)
>upscaling
No need to.

how does anything but bicubic look good to you braindamaged retards

>>106389975
For me personally it's an amusing challenge and Chobits holds a special place in my heart because it makes me wonder about the occult AI stuff. There's so much we still don't know about sentience/free will. Maybe we're not supposed to.

>>106387994
Not only the characters, almost everything in this scene looks at least a little elongated, pay attention to the windows and the AC in the background.
Maybe it's the intended art style, it's been around 15 years since I watched this series. But I'd say the AR isn't fully correct

there's no need for fancy upscaling. it always looks bad.

watch the dvd with the hardware upscaler in your bluray player

>>106387994
The torso is smaller putting less strain on the legs.

>>106385673
Bicubic looks infinitely better than OP pic

I have yet to see a upscale that doesn't look like either a blurry mess or removes fine detail and texture.

Just use a CRT shader.

>>106387994
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ちょびっツ#テレビアニメ
>The anime version was produced with a high-definition screen size of 16:9, but the terrestrial (analog) broadcast was trimmed to a standard screen size of 4:3
>In the first image of the opening, a spark runs in a horizontal straight line, but if it is 16:9, it can be seen as a spark running between hemispherical objects arranged on the left and right
It's OP's screenshots which are elongated, because they were taken from the raw dvd image (704x480)

>>106393483
why is it that a 480i vhs on a 30 inch crt can look great, but the same picture will look like ass upscaled to 1080p on a modern 17 inch screen

>>106393548
It has nothing to do with scaling. It would look like shit on a 30" LCD SDTV, too.

>>106385667 (OP)
>>106385673
you haven't yet asked if you SHOULD be upscaling anything.

>>106386284
>this is as good as it gets
You are a braindead third worlder. None of this looks good.

As a person of renowned taste, I watch as developers originally intended

>>106393548
Because CRTs were blurry. Which makes them look far better.

>>106393681
based

https://openmodeldb.info/

knock yourself out

the Chobits DVD (or at least the one I downloaded) is absolutely fucked in terms of interlacing. the field order can swap from scene to scene. I ended up watching it with the nnedi deinterlacer configured to only use one field from the input, which effectively split the already mediocre vertical resolution in half

i can just imagine op, some smelly pajeet in his suicide cubicle, with his 1080p TN panel doing referencing work with some dogshit entry level gpu he got money from scamming elderly people online