Why Anime4k?

[Barbas]

Aren't sinc / ewa_lanczossharp better? Also what scaler do you guys like for video? Been using Nvidias for 720p streams.

[kripcision]

anime4k itself works pretty good for anime, however the actual anime4k shaders for mpv have better results than what is used in Lossless Scaling.

[Space Detective]

I had the impression the Anime4K option in LS was implemented more for video games, such as visual novels that don't support your display's native resolution. It's certainly what I use it for.
You could use it for video, but you'd probably get better results using the standalone shaders in your video player yeah.

[Spook]

Originally posted by Barbas:

Aren't sinc / ewa_lanczossharp better? Also what scaler do you guys like for video? Been using Nvidias for 720p streams.

Anime4k seems to have been designed for upscaling 2d, non- pixel-style art. (anime/VNs, it's in the name) It does this really well.

When used on "real life"-videos it seems to have the following effects;
-Slight noise-removal / erasing of fine details.
-Line-thinning
-Some sort of very mild geometry-correction on lines.
Probably undesirable to most. Not to mention it's quite recourse-intensive at higher settings.

For regular video, i use LS1 or FSR. FSR when video is already oversharpened, LS1 when it's not. NIS will quickly oversharpen if source is sharp.

[Barbas]

Originally posted by I <3 SAO:

I had the impression the Anime4K option in LS was implemented more for video games, such as visual novels that don't support your display's native resolution. It's certainly what I use it for.
You could use it for video, but you'd probably get better results using the standalone shaders in your video player yeah.

Yea that makes sense.

Originally posted by Spook:

Originally posted by Barbas:

Aren't sinc / ewa_lanczossharp better? Also what scaler do you guys like for video? Been using Nvidias for 720p streams.

Anime4k seems to have been designed for upscaling 2d, non- pixel-style art. (anime/VNs, it's in the name) It does this really well.

When used on "real life"-videos it seems to have the following effects;
-Slight noise-removal / erasing of fine details.
-Line-thinning
-Some sort of very mild geometry-correction on lines.
Probably undesirable to most. Not to mention it's quite recourse-intensive at higher settings.

For regular video, i use LS1 or FSR. FSR when video is already oversharpened, LS1 when it's not. NIS will quickly oversharpen if source is sharp.

Thanks, the uses I've been giving have been very soft and both LS1 and NIS shine there but I'll keep FSR in mind for sharp scenes.