Best posts made by drekkin

@raphjd Criticising one law and the newspaper which has championed it is not "bashing conservatives". It was literally a criticism of the law in the title of the thread! You have made a grossly incorrect assumption about me and my politics based on this single comment. This particular law happens to have been passed by a rightwing government, had it been passed by a leftwing government and promoted by virtue signallers at The Guardian newspaper I would have been equally critical of it. A bad law is a bad law regardless of who passed it. There is no need to take such criticism so personally as an attack on your personal beliefs.

The whole world is not a toxic left v right, us v them contest like you seem to see it. Like I said, I come from a different political culture and this pointless trench warfare is something which adds literally nothing to political discourse.

BTW What you did is the epitome of a strawman argument. You brought up negative things done by someone else to draw attention away from the issue at hand. As a forum admin I thought you would at least be able to grasp that basic concept.

@john32123666 The vast majority of upscaled content that is being shared on here ranges from pretty poor to downright terrible. It's at epidemic levels these days and since Topaz made their software more basic and cheaper there are users with no experience thinking they are suddenly digital video experts. I blame how Topaz are advertising their software, as some kind of magic solution than can turn anything to HD or 4K, when in reality it can do nothing of the sort. Most of what I have seen on here has been destroyed by the software (by the person using the software in fact) and it looks like anime or an oil painting.
I've been working with digital video for almost two decades and started using AI enhancement as a part of my workflow for some restoration jobs about 2 years ago. It's a fantastic tool when used correctly, but unfortunately I rarely see it used correctly here, I stopped sharing my own AI enhanced videos some time ago because I was embarrassed to be associated with the "AI Enhanced" label. I assume most users see that and scroll on by.
Lately when I see a bad AI enhanced video, I try and get the original version seeding again (if I can find it), because in most cases the original is considerably better.

@AlexDemand It usually takes a few minutes for the tracker to update after you delete a torrent from your client.

@lololulu19 No, no, no, no, no. AI models have no function to restore colour. They use learned algorithms to remove noise and interpolate pixels to improve fidelity - that is all. With a poor quality source video, like a VHS transfer, they just cannot differentiate between noise and picture and will remove detail and enhance noise.
Anyone who wants to restore old VHS tapes will need a professional grade cassette player to digitise the tapes and should be using conventional software to stabilise the picture and balance the colour, and to fix VHS issues like signal noise, haloing, ringing etc. As a final step AI software can be used, but in most cases VHS picture quality is too low res for AI processing to be effective and the processed video comes out either looking like anime, or like an oil painting left out in the rain.

@lololulu19 Because while you were downloading other segments the high priority segments were downloaded by one of the peers that you can connect to, and they were downloaded by you once your other downloading segments completed. The high priority only works when these files are available from a peer you can connect to, if they are not available your client will download other available files. This is particularly apparent when a torrent is new with only one seeder.

@lololulu19 It's simply because the peers that you are connected to don't have the high priority segments that you are missing. You may not be connected to any seeder, but instead other leechers so only the files / segments they have downloaded will be available to you.