Fun Fact: it works on videos!

[StriK3FoRC3]

You can use frame generation and upscaling on videos in your browser, as well as with other apps like VLC media player.

Thank you @(ノ°□°)ノ for creating this tool, love it

Edit: If you get a black screen when you start the upscaling, disable hardware acceleration in your browser. This happens because most streaming services have DRM protection.

Edit2: It does not work with Netflix and other streaming apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store due to DRM restrictions that cannot be bypassed, unlike in the browser.

Edit 3: Another Fun Fact: If you have a 21:9 monitor and encounter a video in "Fake 21:9" (black bars on all sides), you can set the scaling mode to custom and the scale factor to 1.333 (with "Resize before scaling" set to off) to achieve true 21:9. Additionally, experimenting with the scaling type can give you an even better picture compared to some browser add-ons that zoom in on the video.

This tool is a game changer, not just for playing games but also for watching videos. Thank you so much for this!

[StriK3FoRC3]

for example "the Simpsons" are in 720p on disney plus, my monitor is 3440 x 1440 if i set the scale factor to 2 it outputs 1440p and looks much better (with Anime4k)

[It's a Mind Game]

Ah, thanks, it actually works with those settings. It was "upscaling" from 4K to 4K for me, and because I changed from aspect ratio to fullscreen (without reading what it does), it also did this when I tried to upscale windowed application.

Sad that it can't do this automatically with fullscreened video and just thinks it is 4K source, but most of the things I watch are 1080p so just one profile will do.

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

Originally posted by FidRay16:

Can u please take a scrn of ur setting in LS app. For me upscaler doesn't work at all. I tested VLC, MPV and PotPlayer with mp4 and mkv videos and no one of them worked.
My settings:
https://imgur.com/a/T7PXMo6

also upscaling works for me in vlc and browser https://i.ibb.co/6PDttth/Screenshot-2024-06-02-184456.png
anime is already in 1080p and i upscale to 1440p, to see if it does anything set your "scale Factor" to 10 and see if it gets worse, if it does that means it does upscale it.

click on the "status" thingy in the bottom left corner to see from what resolution it upscales to 1080p or whatever your monitors resolution is

I can't make a screenrshot of it, 'cause it fullscreen for me, but windowed for lightshot. But when I try to upscale 720p anime (vlc+.mp4) with scale x2 (1440p) it looks like the same or even worse than native 720p. Status says that it upscales from 720p to 1440p

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

anime is already in 1080p and i upscale to 1440p, to see if it does anything set your "scale Factor" to 10 and see if it gets worse, if it does that means it does upscale it.

10x didn't work, but 5x looks way way worse. Why then x2 looks the same? And there is a problem when i use small (original 720p on 1440p monitor) window size for vlc, when upscaled it has player's HUD in it

[StriK3FoRC3]

idk then, For me, it makes an improvement. It isn't perfect, mainly because it's just supposed to be used with games, not videos. Maybe in the future, the developer will implement proper support for videos.

at least frame gen works as good as it can for videos, thats my main use.

[It's a Mind Game]

Originally posted by FidRay16:

10x didn't work, but 5x looks way way worse. Why then x2 looks the same? And there is a problem when i use small (original 720p on 1440p monitor) window size for vlc, when upscaled it has player's HUD in it

If you check that box for "resize before scaling", then if you go into fullscreen with your video it will resize it according to the scale factor and then use upscaling to your fullscreen resolution.

For me if I use factor of 2, then it will resize to 1080p and upscale to 4K. Factor of 3 is resizing to 720p and upscaling to 4K.

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

for example "the Simpsons" are in 720p on disney plus, my monitor is 3440 x 1440 if i set the scale factor to 2 it outputs 1440p and looks much better (with Anime4k)

https://imgur.com/a/JkzuxyY
Something like that when i go fullscreen video and then turn LS on

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by It's a Mind Game:

Originally posted by FidRay16:

10x didn't work, but 5x looks way way worse. Why then x2 looks the same? And there is a problem when i use small (original 720p on 1440p monitor) window size for vlc, when upscaled it has player's HUD in it

If you check that box for "resize before scaling", then if you go into fullscreen with your video it will resize it according to the scale factor and then use upscaling to your fullscreen resolution.

For me if I use factor of 2, then it will resize to 1080p and upscale to 4K. Factor of 3 is resizing to 720p and upscaling to 4K.

Thanks. I just figured it out. But no diff either. I used 1.333x to upscale 1080p to 1440p. Uploaded scrn above

[It's a Mind Game]

Maybe try disconnecting your second display and uncheck multi-display support? Just to test it out.

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

at least frame gen works as good as it can for videos, thats my main use.

For me too, but upscale will be good too. Maybe i'm blind or what but i don't see any difference at all

[StriK3FoRC3]

Originally posted by FidRay16:

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

for example "the Simpsons" are in 720p on disney plus, my monitor is 3440 x 1440 if i set the scale factor to 2 it outputs 1440p and looks much better (with Anime4k)

https://imgur.com/a/JkzuxyY
Something like that when i go fullscreen video and then turn LS on

for me it zooms in on the video on the first try, i have it on a hotkey, if you enable/disable it multiple times it fixes the video size

Edit: Press F11 when it happens
i have it on F24 as a hotkey it seems it acts also like F11 thats why it fixed it for me when pressing it multiple times

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by It's a Mind Game:

Maybe try disconnecting your second display and uncheck multi-display support? Just to test it out.

The same
https://imgur.com/a/h6xXs9x

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

Originally posted by FidRay16:

https://imgur.com/a/JkzuxyY
Something like that when i go fullscreen video and then turn LS on

for me it zooms in on the video on the first try, i have it on a hotkey, if you enable/disable it multiple times it fixes the video size

Edit: Press F11 when it happens

It looks like this only on scrnshot, i see fullscrn in both scenarios. But i see no diff even when i try to find it looking right up close to the screen. Do u see any difference on my screenshots?

[StriK3FoRC3]

Originally posted by Mu:

You can't magically turn a 16:9 video into 21:9 without black bars, I surmise you stretched the video to fit the screen which is a bad idea for obvious reasons.

if you talk about my main post, i was talking about fake 21:9 videos, a video that was made in 21:9 and then rendered in 16:9

[FidRay16]

Originally posted by StriK3FoRC3:

Originally posted by FidRay16:

https://imgur.com/a/JkzuxyY
Something like that when i go fullscreen video and then turn LS on

for me it zooms in on the video on the first try, i have it on a hotkey, if you enable/disable it multiple times it fixes the video size

Edit: Press F11 when it happens
i have it on F24 as a hotkey it seems it acts also like F11 thats why it fixed it for me when pressing it multiple times

UPD. When i press it multiple times its goes well on screenshot, but quality doesn't change
https://imgur.com/a/WKoC4Q5