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A zero-shot pipeline from pretrained parts reaches ~32 fps at 720p on one RTX 4090 but explicitly trades \"reconstruction fidelity for strong no-reference perceptual quality\" and struggles with hard motion (R3). Practical: (1) a 24 GB card can now upscale generated clips to 4K locally without tiling seams; (2) generative VSR invents...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Self-hosted counterpart to commercial finishing tools (C3-B479-01). SeedVR2 (ByteDance Seed): 3B and 7B weights on Hugging Face under apache-2.0; Comfy-Org hosts a repackaged set in fp16, fp8, int8, mxfp8 and nvfp4 precisions (652k downloads) and the community numz ComfyUI wrapper has ~2.9k stars (R1, R5). FlashVSR+ (13 Oct 2026, R2): hybrid local/sparse-global attention gives up to 2x DiT speed and 45% lower peak memory, \"enabling spatially untiled 4K VSR on a single 24GB RTX 4090\", with reward-weighted distillation for user-preferred one-step output; code, models and training data released (code Apache-2.0; ComfyUI wrappers exist, one GPL-3.0) (R2, R4). A zero-shot pipeline from pretrained parts reaches ~32 fps at 720p on one RTX 4090 but explicitly trades \"reconstruction fidelity for strong no-reference perceptual quality\" and struggles with hard motion (R3). Practical: (1) a 24 GB card can now upscale generated clips to 4K locally without tiling seams; (2) generative VSR invents plausible detail - fine for stylised or background plates, risky for faces, on-screen text, logos and likeness-sensitive shots, where recognition-oriented evaluation (FANVIDv2 scores whether faces/plates remain identifiable, R6) is a better check than sharpness; (3) check weight licences separately from wrapper code licences (GPL wrappers impose obligations if redistributed).\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Abstract-level reading of the paper(s); full methods not read by discovery or the curator. FlashVSR+ weight licence not confirmed. 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Practical: (1) a 24 GB card can now upscale generated clips to 4K locally without tiling seams; (2) generative VSR invents plausible detail - fine for stylised or background plates, risky for faces, on-screen text, logos and likeness-sensitive shots, where recognition-oriented evaluation (FANVIDv2 scores whether faces/plates remain identifiable, R6) is a better check than sharpness; (3) check weight licences separately from wrapper code licences (GPL wrappers impose obligations if redistributed).\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Abstract-level reading of the paper(s); full methods not read by discovery or the curator. FlashVSR+ weight licence not confirmed. 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