A Windows video player that treats your whole screen as an upscaling target

What it does Veyra is a C++/DirectX 12 Windows 11 player and capture tool that runs everything you watch — video files, capture cards, PS5, Xbox, PC streaming via Moonlight/Sunshine, screen capture — through a single real-time enhancement pipeline. That means RTX Video Super Resolution (three model families, including dual-pass), layered denoising, HDR handling, anti-aliasing, and frame generation, all applied to the picture before it hits your display. The pitch is simple: your console or old video file doesn’t get smarter, but the path to your monitor does.

The interesting bit It’s less a video player and more a compositing graph: a node editor with executable connections, per-layer NR parameters, sessions and presets, plus a Professional mode showing GPU stage time and load per effect. The layered denoise even extrapolates one inference’s residual up to strength five, with a protection slider to rein it back — the README is refreshingly honest that it “cannot promise full gain five with no artifacts on every video.”

Key highlights

• Dual RTX Video SR with independent second-pass models, plus SR-then-downsample and 8K output
• Frame generation with dedup, smoothed anchors, and optional VFG regulation; RTX 30 VFG compatibility in 2.1.3
• AMD support: RX 9000 NR models, experimental RX 7000 RedDuke NR, FSR and lmxxf options
• Export queue with trimming, MP4/MKV, multiple audio/subtitle tracks — records the processed picture with audio
• Optional extras: FXAA/SMAA/MLAA anti-aliasing, face restoration with 468-point contours, NVIDIA Low Latency modes

Caveats

• Windows 11 x64 and DirectX 12 only; most local testing was on an RTX 5070, and the README admits no local AMD speedup percentages were measured
• Migration between versions is fiddly — the docs warn against overwriting old veyra.ini or mixing DLLs, and in-place upgrades “leave stale components”
• Xbox streaming is explicitly unofficial and experimental

Verdict Worth a look if you watch console or capture-card footage on a PC and want AI upscaling and frame generation applied to all of it, not just games. If you just play local files on a modest GPU or run Linux, this isn’t for you.