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Hi there all =) I am an encoder. I use the exact same settings as RARBG did for all their delicious encodes and was actually inquiring to assist them with encodes and a week later they posted their goodbye message. I would very much LOVE to be the top uploader and with everyone's love and support from here, we can all surely make TG the #1 site to go to! I have gigabit of upload, good PC for encoding and server with most of RARBG library and I am ready to post some great stuff that cant be found elsewhere because I used Al Enhancing and then encode to ×265. ljust want to focus on TV seasons in ENG and any NEW movies that become available I would love to post them all 1080p.WEBRip.×265-INFINITY Hope to be able to make everyone happy this week!
I'm not sure about the "AI Enhancing"... in general I would prefer that things be as close as possible to the official release. And certainly I would hope that if something has not just been re-encoded, but visually altered, that it would be clearly marked as such.
Yeah it should be clearly marked if AI enhanced. Also I would think new material should already be available in 1080p/4K I am not sure why you would want to AI enhanced it at all.
I could see AI enhancing being useful in content that wasn't ever released in 1080p or 4K. For example there are many old TV shows they only ever got a DVD release or the source film was never scanned into 4K resolution.
There was (unfortunately dumb Discord drama pulled it apart) an archiving group that was trying to get every single Cartoon Network and Warner cartoon, and they custom built an upscale ERSGAN model for Ed, Edd n Eddy, even using actual purchased animation cels as training material.
While it inevitably has some issues, it's a great experience to have, watching something in 4K which would only ever existed in 720p (or lower? 576p?).
https://teddit.net/r/ededdneddy/comments/n6whqz/ed_edd_n_eddy_definitive_edition/ (1080p downscale torrent in the replies)
That is cool. I have seen a few projects using AI to enhance old TV shows. There was one that worked on Stargate SG1 and I think a few working on Star Trek Voyager and Deep Space 9. Looked pretty good from the samples I have seen.