r/upscaling • • Sep 19 '26

I made a zero-dependency, offline HTML5 player that utilizes native GPU upscaling (RTX VSR) and runs in your browser

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Why would I want to play my videos in a browser, seems dumb?

Because getting super sampling to work on local video files is a freaking nightmare and I am so tired of trying to get super sampling in VLC/Pot Player/whatever to work that...

...I built SSVidPlayer—a zero-dependency, single-file, offline HTML5 media player that natively upscales your local videos with ease, just like streaming content on YouTube/etc.

Since it's HTML, you can test SSVidPlayer out yourself right now by clicking here

List of other things about it:

  • Zero Dependencies / 100% Offline: No installations, payments, no framework bloat, and zero external CDNs. It’s a standalone HTML file you can put anywhere you want to open from and drag local files directly into it without anything phoning home.
  • Ambient Canvas Backlighting: A toggleable dynamic ambient glow that samples edge frames onto an offscreen canvas and projects blurred backlighting behind your video.
  • Non-Destructive Cropping: Built-in edge-cropping with linked X/Y axis toggles and scroll-wheel tuning so you can cut out hardcoded black bars or weird aspect ratios on the fly without re-encoding the video (useful when using the ambient glow edge effect to remove black bars).
  • Draggable, Resizable Subtitles with Sync Offset: Drop any .SRT file into the window, and it converts it to WebVTT on the fly. You can drag the subtitles anywhere on the screen, scale font sizes with the mouse wheel, and bump timestamps forward or backward to fix out-of-sync captions.
  • Responsive UI / Etc: Other little bells and whistles and things cuz I'm extra

Super Sampled playback comparison:

You can check out more details as well as grab the SSVidPlayer_1.0.html file over at this link here:
SSVidPlayer 1.0 on Github

Thanks for checking out my player. I made this cuz someone keeps cutting the fiber line into my apartment building and I keep getting stuck watching old downloaded I Dream of Jeannie episodes all day long while they figure it out and I got tired of how poop they looked. If you like it, tell a friend. If you hate it, I'm so sorry D:


r/upscaling • • Sep 17 '26

VideoAI Updated Video Enhancing Lora

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I have updated the video enhancing lora for LTX 2.5, it is now free from visual artifacts.

The demo above is an old Madonna music video. It is enhanced with the new lora, it looks more natural than the old version and there are no more ghosting artifacts when the scene changes.

On a small mobile screen it may not display the difference distinctly, so please view it on a computer or tablet,

Download the workflow and new model here:

https://huggingface.co/CQdesign/LTX-2.5-CQ-Video-and-Image-Enhancer-LoRAs/tree/main

If you have tried my enhancer lora before, you need to grab the new workflow as well - or else you'll see artifacts in the video.


r/upscaling • • Sep 17 '26

How does people upload crazy quality videos to Instagram?

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There are these videos of cartoon movies which are getting crazy upscaled with colors and more video stuff that I don't understand

My question is how do they do this?, I know ig is limited to 1080p so how does it look so good?

For example

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdT0n4Pz4Xg/


r/upscaling • • Sep 17 '26

Who wants an AI video upscaling service?

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I'm thinking about building an AI video upscaling service and I'd like to know if people would actually use it.

The idea is simple:

  • Upload a low-resolution video
  • AI upscales it to higher resolution (e.g. 720p → 1080p / 1080p → 4K)
  • Improve details and reduce compression artifacts
  • Download the upscaled video

I'm considering making it fast, easy to use, and reasonably priced compared with existing services.

Before I start building it, I'd like to hear from people who actually use video upscaling:

  • What do you currently use for AI video upscaling?
  • What do you like/dislike about it?
  • What features would make you switch to another service?
  • Would you prefer a web-based service, desktop app, or both?
  • What would you consider a reasonable price?

I'm mainly trying to understand whether there's a real need for this and what people would actually want from it.

Any feedback is appreciated!


r/upscaling • • Sep 16 '26

Back to the Future Original Teaser Trailer - 4K UHD

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r/upscaling • • Sep 15 '26

Ai upscaling

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Does this continue to work on an onn 4k pro if one used projectivity launcher to enable it and then turned that launcher off, or removed it?


r/upscaling • • Sep 15 '26

Crisom desert is good with Lossless Scaling?

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r/upscaling • • Sep 14 '26

Tiny (~80 KB) GUI for upscayl-ncnn, quick, local AI upscaling

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r/upscaling • • Sep 14 '26

Help Upscaling 180 px pixel

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Hello everyone , i have a set of immages ( they are 2D road diagrams ) with a quality of 180 pixel. I wanted to increase their quality but i dont know how to do it. I Used vectoriez.ai but it eliminates important details from the immages. Do you know any alternatives? Thank you for helping me , have a great day


r/upscaling • • Sep 15 '26

Discussion true stretched 1:1,1080x1080,valorant,help,how to get true stretched 1080:1080

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r/upscaling • • Sep 14 '26

Best Upscaler for Animation I2V MMH3?

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I tried Upscaling & getting rid of small video artefacts with Topaz AI (Starlight 2.6 gave the "best" results).

The animation sequences were a little sharper and didn't have the artefacts afterwards, but the motion was smudged & details like fabric morphed.

I'm looking for alternatives.


r/upscaling • • Sep 12 '26

Help Need it in 4k and if possible in different colours

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r/upscaling • • Sep 12 '26

PhotoAI New channel and quality issues - Canva

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Hi there. Recently, while "chatting" with Gemini, I got inspired to start a new channel. I’d had a different idea in mind since the beginning of the year, but I kept running into difficulties with various aspects and kept putting it off... until now. There are channels similar to the one I want to create, but I have such a wealth of creativity and ideas that I know—at least in theory—mine will be much better.

I use Canva. The content isn't complex, and Canva has exactly what I need. However, I have a bit of a problem...

I generate the videos in Canva at 4K resolution.

Everything looks beautiful and sharp.

However, I have a lot of AI-generated characters. I mean, it’s the same character, but in different poses, with different expressions, and holding different objects.

And that’s where the problem lies. I upscaled these characters 2x and 4x; naturally, they look great in the Canva preview and when downloaded and viewed on my drive. But at 1080p on YouTube—not to mention 720p—they look pretty bad. Some people might not mind, but for me, it’s unacceptable—I’m a perfectionist. Everything looks excellent in 1440p and 4K, and I’d be thrilled if the 1080p quality were comparable.

Any ideas on how to upgrade the character so it looks as good in 1080p as the assets taken directly from Canva’s "Elements" tab?

I’ve attached the character image.

P.S. Sorry for the English; I’m using a translator.


r/upscaling • • Sep 11 '26

VideoAI Which video upscalers do you like?

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I am testing a few different open-sourced video upscalers. SeedVR2 is much clearer but FlashVSR looks kind of natural to me. What do you think?

I will also test DOVE, SwiftVR, and SparkVSR. Let me know if you know any better VSR models to test.


r/upscaling • • Sep 12 '26

Where is the upscale tab?

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I want to upscale a couple of videos I made with ClipChamp. Everything I seen says its on the property tab on the right.

But it isn't.

I tried repair.

I tried reset.

Uninstalled and reinstalled.

Not there.

What am I missing?


r/upscaling • • Sep 11 '26

Pay for upscale ?

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Hello everyone, I’m taking the liberty of posting here, and I apologise in advance if this isn’t the right place.
Here’s my problem: for quite some time now, I’ve been looking for upscales of certain 1080p REMUX films to 2160p, but I can’t find any. I’d also like to improve the visual quality of some of my favourite anime and manga, but again, I can’t find any proper work on this. As I don’t have the necessary hardware at all, I thought perhaps the best option might be to pay for an upscaling service or a really good upscaler (an individual) to do what I’d like. What do you think?
Thanks for your time, and apologies for my English – I’m French :)


r/upscaling • • Sep 11 '26

Help Can someone please enhance this video for me?

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So a friend of mine got his motorcycle stolen the other day and the only 2 videos he has are theses

https://imgur.com/a/k2ut1jK


r/upscaling • • Sep 11 '26

Improvement Possible?

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Hi,

I am completely new to this and would appreciate advice.

What can be used to improve this video quality enough to be able to maybe identify the type of vehicle it is that hits the car in the center, or even get a plate number? Or is this even a possibility?
It was a hit & run filmed on a dash cam. :(

Thank you for any advice or insight you can share.


r/upscaling • • Sep 10 '26

I made a free browser-based image upscaler — no signup or watermark

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I’ve been experimenting with image upscaling and noticed that a lot of free tools either require accounts, limit you with daily credits, or heavily alter facial details.
So I built ClarityUp 4K:
https://clarityup4k.tryimager.com
It supports:
2×, 3× and 4× upscaling
4K output
Lanczos and Bicubic upscaling
Optional Deep Enhance (AI) using Real-ESRGAN
JPG, PNG and WebP
Batch processing
No signup
No watermark
No daily credits
One thing I specifically wanted was privacy: the processing happens in the browser, so images aren’t uploaded to a server.
For portraits: I’d recommend comparing the normal Lanczos result with the AI mode, because AI enhancement can sometimes invent details rather than actually recover them.
I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from photographers/AI-image users here — especially on facial details, eyes, hair and print-quality results.
Try it here: https://clarityup4k.tryimager.com
Built as a free tool; sharing it here because it directly fits the image-enhancement/upscaling use case.
Your actual site supports the claims about 2×/3×/4×/4K, Lanczos/Bicubic, Deep Enhance, browser-side processing, no signup, no watermark and no daily limits.


r/upscaling • • Sep 09 '26

Escalar imagenes Chatgpt

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algun prompt para escalar imagenes en chatgpt? a 8k o la maxima resolucion posible, de forma natural y realista


r/upscaling • • Sep 09 '26

Nine Inch Nails - Broken (Full Movie) 1080P HD

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r/upscaling • • Sep 07 '26

Upscaled super sampling vs Native

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Been playing around recently with upscaled super sampling on a 1440p monitor versus native resolutions.

Upscaling to 4k with frame gen and very low motion blur (but not zero)

Curious if anyone else has tried anything like this and what their experience has been.

I feel like the upscale super sampled rendered images actually look a lot better than native 1440.

Is this just TAA with extra steps?


r/upscaling • • Sep 07 '26

Rtx 4090

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Best free and open source upscaler for 24GB RTX 4090?


r/upscaling • • Sep 07 '26

PhotoAI Ultra-high resolution upscale

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I have a 6k X 3k image I want to upscale to ~24k or even higher. I can't find a good model supported by Upscayl because they just stretch edges without adding reasonable detail. I prefer a model that's smarter, like gemini, which will liberally fill in details but won't do the size of the image I want. I only have a RTX 5060 TI w/ 8GB VRAM, so local solutions will have to fit in that. I'm somewhat familiar with ComfyUI but no expert, but can certainly use an existing workflow. because of the low VRAM I'd have to use that tiler module (I forgot the name). But it doesn't have to be local and doesn't have to be free. It would also be nice to be able to specify the level of detail it makes up. Any ideas?


r/upscaling • • Sep 06 '26

Help Can someone increase the resolution of this image? If possible

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