The comments are the exact reason why we can’t have nice things. Isn’t it a nice thing companies bring support of any technology to Firefox?
No, of course not. Firefox should just remain the same as it is now and never change with the times.
Why would I ever want this.
For if you wanted SD videos to upscale? If you don’t then don’t enable it in the nvidia control panel.
Do I have an nVidia control panel?
You do not
If you have an nVidia video card it can be helpful.
Keeping it updated without their godawful GeForce Experience bullshit is a bit of a pain, though. And it has limited settings.
Apparently the new nvidia app is miles better than GFE. I only use the control panel historically but installed the new app to remind me to update drivers.
the new app is a step in the right direction. it will push you to want to login via free rewards, but its optional. its a lot snappier than the POS that is GFE and really the only thing holding it back atm is not all the features of ncp has been integrated onto the new app, so it’s still required to have the ncp around.
took forever as both AMD and Intel had updated their driver software suit ages ago now.
I’m pretty sure that’s a windows only thing. My main machine is offline right now, but the nVidia settings tool is quite different from their windows control panel from wha I remember.
generally speaking, its more valuable if the cost of electricity used is lower than the cost of getting better internet (e.g living in the bumfuck no where).
say if your isp gives you a 250gb cap and costs 50$ per 250gb (just throwing out numbers), it might make sense to use less data in the stream quality, and upscale it to a higher resolution using GPU as a cost saving measure.
In a world where 4k is the dominant resolution. I find it hard to see a use case for this. I don’t have an 8k TV no one I know does either.
4k is not the dominant resolution for some media like twitch streams. There are also lots of people who still don’t have Internet fast enough to stream native 4k. It could help with older YouTube videos, as well.
I need to look for the statistics again but most media is still served at 1080p. If you look at the most popular YouTubers however the skew is towards 4k because Google wants to tout that number, however the bitrate is comparable to 20mbit 1080p
After I made the comment I thought about all of those old 360p videos on YouTube. If it can make those look better then I can see the appeal.
It won’t help with the poor lighting, onboard mic and insanely low bitrates though.
From the demo it seems to help make SDR hardware show more clarity for HDR scenes.
Woah check out the rich guy with nothing but 4K panels… can we party at your house? You know, since you’re so fucken loaded?
I’d never let you poors stink up my mansion.
The world is such a a shitty place because so many people are certain their anecdotal experiences are the way the world is.
