R-ESRGAN-AnimeVideo-UI (reav-ui)

Upscale your videos using the R-ESRGAN AnimeVideo model

📝 Usage

• Run the R-ESRGAN-AnimeVideo-UI.pyw script to launch the UI.
•  Select a video file that you want to upscale.
•  Follow the steps labeled in the UI.

Note: The Upscale and Merge operations delete the previous frames by default. If you want to keep the frames, make sure to enable the Keep Frames option.

After extracting/upscaling, you have the option to scale the frames to any size.

mp4, gif, avi, mkv, webm, mov, m4v, wmv, are supported.

Explore the options!

🤷 Why?

Why use this over an application like Chainner, or Topaz Video AI?

While both applications are undoubtedly more than capable, (among others, I'm sure) I found xinntao's implementation is extremely fast compared to Chainner. And of course free is always better than Topaz Video AI's high cost.

Other upscale models are popular, but realesr-animevideov3 remains a favorite of mine for multiple reasons.

• It's very fast. Speed Tests
• While it does have somewhat heavy smoothing, it doesn't totally destroy fine details like grain.
• In my opinion, it has superb line reconstruction compared to others like RealESRGAN_x4plus_anime_6B

Check out these comparisons.✨

🚩 Requirements

You must have Python 3.10+ installed to the system PATH

Running the script will automatically fulfill all requirements.

The pillow library will be downloaded and installed (if not already available) upon first launch.

ffmpeg and ffprobe will be downloaded upon first launch.

realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan-20220424-windows.zip and the required models will be downloaded upon launch.

📜 Version History

v1.10 changes:

• New:
  • You can now use other upscale models. RealESRGAN_General_x4_v3, realesrgan-x4plus, realesrgan-x4plus-anime
  • 1x scaling is now supported. Note: This is not recommended. See comparison.
  • You can now output any video as a gif and export high-quality or low-quality gifs. See this section of the wiki for details on getting the most out of this feature.
  • Percent, ETA, and FPS are now displayed during the image scaling process.
  • You can now resize extracted or upscaled frames by percentage or exact resolution.
• Fixed:
  • Buttons are properly grayed out after merging.   

👥 Credits

ffmpeg-6.0-essentials: https://ffmpeg.org/

Real-ESRGAN_portable: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN#portable-executable-files-ncnn