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It's a more recent mpv version but not the latest, and it's not slower. Profile=fast will make some difference, but not enough to stop major packet loss. With this GPU, changing to hwdec=no will almost certainly perform worse than hwdec=auto.  I also wouldn't use those SVP settings as some of them could be causing problems for your CPU as well as your GPU. Better off using Automatic after SVP checks performance, then start to tweak from there.

Also it's worth restarting SVP every so often otherwise performance will begin to suffer (possible memory leaks?).

Cool

I think I understand how the previous list of settings were created. Once that clicked, it made it easier for me to make some changes and revert a couple of settings back to default. Short version; remove the pnew and pzero penalties. I also set lambda penalty to 4.0 but this is pure guesswork. But with these changes I was able to revert Decrease grid step from local, back to global. I also disabled Artifacts masking but I assume this was overridden anyway.

I see a few people have downloaded the config and I would love some feedback. I'm particularly interested to hear about smoothness or lack of and CPU/GPU type and usage. I'm thinking about modding this for 60fps but not sure if that would be interesting since I'm sure others have already done that.

It's been an interesting balancing act trying to get the best out of all scenarios. RIFE like fast action smoothness & RIFE clarity are two separate things. Hugo intro style multiple types of complicated slow pans are another. The main thing I learned is that SVP default settings are mostly correct. I tried many of the other modifications and they usually make things subtly worse. But a small change in block percentage from 20 (the default) to 24 seems to be the last best mod I can make to my configuration The multiple complications of Hugo are dealt with better than ever, while not impacting normal slow and fast pans.

The good news is that GPU usage is almost halved. So CPU usage is now 2x GPU usage with peaks of 3x and rare peaks of 4x GPU usage.

I've previously suggested exactly this and I have posted settings based on augmenting the Automatic Profile. My current settings do the same thing, but taken to the next level with overrides.

It depends on the size of the screen. On very large screens, just as upscaling to 4k can make the movie "appear" to be sharper and clearer. A reduction in resolution can also become noticeable in certain movie scenes.

As previously explained, going from 24fps to 60fps is one thing, but getting to 120fps is another. My settings provide a rock solid smooth 120fps and almost completely passes the Hugo test , but that's with the display already running at 120Hz. There are (let's say) more GPU efficient ways of achieving the 120fps goal. The issue isn't just the GPU though, SVP itself is part of the bottleneck. So I would not recommend using my latest settings on a 60Hz display. Looking at what the full set of overrides did on my CPU, @raider10 might be hitting both a CPU and GPU bottleneck. I do recommend using my previously posted settings as a baseline then using the appropriate overrides to reduce the possible SVP bottleneck.

Oh I've improved it all right lol and I will post the settings. Also you may be right about the CPU because I heard my PC fans spin up and when I checked it was the CPU being hit a little harder than before. Are these settings better than RIFE? lol All my previous settings on this thread are better than RIFE. My settings on the other thread the same. The settings you provided are way better than all my previous settings but is specifically designed for 24fp to 60fps only, so it needs modding for different setups.

My attached settings are for my setup running at 120fps so you may need to add the multipliers in the original post to these settings. I mentioned before that I added estimation complexity and you will see this if you compare it to my other posts. Also, I'm going to re-emphasize that I can see the aura artifacts mentioned in the original thread as well as other fleeting artifacts that you don't see. I don't just see micro-stutters, I see nano-stutters. Finally I am very sensitive to interpolation drag or delay which literally make my eyes feel like they are being dragged in the same direction as the camera pan.  So some of these settings are going to be overkill . But you asked for it

My settings are mostly made in the SVP Manager with only a couple of overrides as I've explained in earlier posts. Just by eyeballing it, I see it's mostly defaults. But with a quick check I see settings outside recommended values, some will cause more stuttering, others just plain wrong. I left the majority of the settings alone because I didn't understand them enough and some of those settings seem to be the ones that have been changed. I get the rationale behind the algorithm change but from personal experience this will increase stuttering.  But to be fair, now that I've looked up the new multiplier and it does make sense but not for me running with my display running at 120fps. So I am interested in reading the rationale behind these changes. Especially the penalties.

As for the bottleneck,  you know what your CPU and GPU stats are. But your settings might be making SVP the bottleneck which is what I've been talking about with my most recent posts.

I've corrected and updated my reply to you with more information.

If the GPU is no longer the bottleneck when using SVP then my natural inclination is to turn everything up. All my previous settings were mostly based on turning most SVP settings up to get better results than even RIFE v26 Heavy. it works well enough, until it doesn't for something more difficult like the intro to Hugo. Adding more advanced settings or turning everything up to the max just shifts the bottle neck from the GPU to the application. The trick is actually to turn off unnecessary SVP settings so that it does just enough processing to remove artifacts and smooth motion, but not so much that it  struggles to process frames. For my setup that involved changing the vector block sizes and using quarter pixel motion pixel accuracy (which the manual says is "not recommended" so YMMV). But I also turn off Wide Search and reduce the size of the top course level.

RIFE puts uses so much GPU resources that this aspect of SVP goes unnoticed. But to repeat myself, SVP Pro with the right settings uses substantially less GPU while clearly working better than RIFE so it really is no longer necessary. It just requires a bit of reading and a lot of trial and error Unless of course you are just watching Anime then an earlier RIFE engine which uses relatively few GPU resources might be perfect for you.

These are my current settings for running at 120fps. I am no longer overriding PEL for quarter pixel accuracy as half a pixel is enough. I've found that Average Artifacts masking with the Standard SVP shader is the best combination for removing even the more difficult fast motion vertical artifacts. The other settings are down to your GPU capabilities, but this is the smoothest and most artifact free results I've had using SVP. The remaining difficult to get rid of double images can be reduced fuirther by overriding the main search algorithm to use SATD instead of SAD. However the SVP manual says that it is Extremely slow and do not use it! plus it's not even listed when you select "All Settings". But it does work if you want to try it.

I tried using these settings at 60fps. Fast motion and clarity are more or less the same, but slow pans are not quite as smooth and would require more work. I didn't check for artifacts but I doubt there would be any major difference. But at 120fps, these settings should provide smooth motion for problem slow pans and clarity for difficult to track fast action. Same as RIFE but without many of the problems, including vertical fast motion artifacts and occlusion errors. There may be other artifacts I have yet to find. But the most difficult ones I have previously listed with timestamps are fixed using these settings.

Small update:Mvg 12 px seems to be the SVP default, it's better so I'm using it. 8 px does the best job but at the cost of small artifacts with some edge cases.

@Chainik said in another thread that SVP Pro is the best. He's not wrong.