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PeteJobi / RealEsrganUpscalerGUI

This repo provides a simple GUI for upscaling images and videos, based on Real-ESRGAN ncnn Vulkan, with features for pausing/canceling and performing bulk upscale operations on multiple files or folder contents.
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1x option a possibility? #4

Closed helmernate closed 3 months ago

helmernate commented 3 months ago

Thanks for putting this together. Works like a charm. Any way you could add a 1x option to the upscaling choices so I could run the AI to 4K sources without upscaling?

PeteJobi commented 3 months ago

Hello @helmernate. That will not be possible, as the underlying models do not support 1x upscale. Can I ask why you want to run your content through the software without actually upscaling? That's all the software does.

helmernate commented 3 months ago

Thanks for your response. The 4K master mkv files I get from blu rays are, a lot of the time, soft and grainy. Running them through the ai process at 1x upscale(same size as source) sharpens the picture and eliminates the grain, giving me an improved looking 4k master. I've used dvdfab to do this but it takes an extremely long time to render. Your program upscales about 6 times as fast as dvdfab on my computer. Your program is perfect for everything else. And the ai model I'm using for dvdfab says real ESRGAN and it allows me to do same as source size rendering. I think it's possible. And if your program had that it would be perfect for my use. Thanks again for putting it out there. I'm using it right now.

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Hello @helmernate https://github.com/helmernate. That will not be possible, as the underlying models do not support 1x upscale. Can I ask why you want to run your content through the software without actually upscaling? That's all the software does.

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PeteJobi commented 3 months ago

Oh, sharpening. I see.

This software is basically just a GUI that uses another underlying software (realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan.exe), which only offers upscale options of 2x, 3x and 4x. You can see that in the Readme for their repo. 1x might be possible on a lower level, but the software the GUI is based on doesn't support it. It won't be possible for this GUI.

Thanks for your kind words on the software.

helmernate commented 3 months ago

Any idea where I might be able to find some software similar to yours that I could use to do what I'm talking about faster than dvdfab? Right now it renders at around .24 frames per second. Scarface took me around 300 hours of render time.

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024, 2:15 PM Peter Egunjobi @.***> wrote:

Oh, sharpening. I see.

This software is basically just a GUI that uses another underlying software (realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan.exe https://github.com/PeteJobi/RealEsrganUpscalerGUI/releases/download/v.4.0.0/realesrgan-ncnn-vulkan.exe), which only offers upscale options of 2x, 3x and 4x. You can see that in the Readme for their repo https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan. 1x might be possible on a lower level, but the software the GUI is based on doesn't support it. It won't be possible for this GUI.

Thanks for your kind words on the software.

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PeteJobi commented 3 months ago

None I know that does 1x upscale. Try focusing your search on enhancers instead of upscalers and you might find something.

Are you the one consuming the videos? If so, and if disk space is not an issue, upscaling to 2x, and then watching the video in the same window size as the original resolution, should have the same sharpening effect.

helmernate commented 3 months ago

Thanks for all your help. I will give that a whirl. Disk size is a bit of an issue but I'll see what can be done. 8K is just down the pike. Take it easy.

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None I know that does 1x upscale. Try focusing your search on enhancers instead of upscalers and you might find something.

Are you the one consuming the videos? If so, and if disk space is not an issue, upscaling to 2x, and then watching the video in the same window size as the original resolution, should have the same sharpening effect.

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PeteJobi commented 3 months ago

You're welcome. I know you're serious about this with the mention of 4k master and 300 hours of processing so I hope you find something that makes things faster for you. I'll go ahead and close this issue.