Video2X 4.6.0

In this release:

New Features

• Anime4KCPP 2.0 support (new CNNMode)
• Customizable output file extensions
• Added disable logging check box in GUI
• Various code optimizations and other improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fixed GUI file-deletion-related bugs
• Fixed more python-magic issues, backing off to mimetypes when python-magic fails
• Fixed config loading issues in exe (frozen) mode
• Fixed duplicate file name race condition issues

Docker and Linux

• Added Ubuntu setup script
• Dockerfile now uses Ubuntu setup script
• Ubuntu setup script and Dockerfile now downloads waifu2x/srmd/realsr-ncnn-vulkan releases instead of compiling them
• Fixed lots of other issues existed in the previous versions

Checksums:

• video2x-4.6.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 8D11B511FC46ACAB353343B5A67464178401D55D4A741B20C62AF199C9121147
• video2x-4.6.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: E8D6E809219FC308A84ACF3D685AAD95AE9A5E57D212AB0E893ADE31C6FC4AD6

Video2X 4.5.0

In this release:

• Added log file system
• Fixed python-magic-bin related issues
• Fixed file list item deletion issues

Checksums:

• video2x-4.5.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: AC99F519C32D943C895E107ACE9A00DF02B5BC76024FF10C3246A45FA0596A0E
• video2x-4.5.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 8D11B511FC46ACAB353343B5A67464178401D55D4A741B20C62AF199C9121147

Video2X 4.4.1

In this release:

• Updated the setup script for new waifu2x/srmd/realsr-ncnn-vulkan release structure
• Updated waifu2x/srmd/realsr-ncnn-vulkan packages
• More comments in the config file

Checksums:

• video2x-4.4.1-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: A680385B1CA958A206B22D8AA947A3E5B33EA7FE15AD3C755ED4140AE361D8CA
• video2x-4.4.1-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 7ECAA400582169DCF81A69309A9A5B9BDB17D8411669711DE9F0278EF504A57B

Video2X 4.4.0

Changes in this release:

• Added support for RealSR NCNN Vulkan
• Fixed Anime4KCPP multi-processing mishandling issues
• Some other changes for the Linux platform

Checksums:

• video2x-4.4.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: F9C70EDA8D87668A648D5CCC85BABACBD2B035A8546655B3AE2A7A8345BB3B49
• video2x-4.4.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 7222022D707FA29D6C99E1F0A083622C7B19CB679E0F628964EF744306DF431F

Video2X 4.3.0

Changes in this release:

• Using mimetypes as a backup method for mime type detection when python-magic fails
• Added GUI shortcut keys
• Added H264/H265 tune option
• Requiring CLI input/output path to be specified when help is not specified
• Some other minor tweaks and fixes

Checksums:

• video2x-4.3.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 4E130B7C50507FC4FAC8CDBF8EDE8BFE78AAFA420513CEE734D1C2B2EDBB0180
• video2x-4.3.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 58F7F3822A1F25C3A7A22570CA25010891700D25DDD1CAB3FA196F4D276F40A9

Video2X 4.2.0

Changes in this release:

• Added FFmpeg frame interpolation option (minterpolate)
• Added stopping confirmation dialog
• Changed default output pixel format to yuv420p for better compatibility
• GUI component minor tweaks

Checksums:

• video2x-4.2.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: A49043384C4C138C981A2C09F8EB174A6A15099DB42C355F4CF49CDB8BB3B0EB
• video2x-4.2.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: AC5D19C7AE0069E8BF7CBA85C042E8F5C4E080BA997DCF98C24C497634115E87

Video2X 4.1.0

Changes in this release:

• Added FFmpeg settings in GUI
• Added Gifski settings in GUI
• Added FFprobe tool in GUI
• Display upscaler version number in about page
• Fixed setup script pyunpack PyInstaller bugs (or maybe not bugs)
• Various bug fixes and enhancements. Check commit history for details

Checksums:

• video2x-4.1.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 67913323B456207F6B262ACD1CA764A07A8B7C58DACFFEC3E2E28224F442B82A
• video2x-4.1.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 73598F869C19F68185CDFC2743EE591BD2042E6F3CF107B17FDD44CAC6FBFE57

Video2X 4.0.0

New features in 4.0.0 release as compared to the previous stable release:

• Added internationalization support for CLI
  • Added language zh_CN (简体中文)
  • Language will change automatically according to system locale settings
• Added support for Anime4KCPP in replacement for Anime4K (Java)
• Driver-specific settings can now be specified in the command line by specifying them after a --
• All driver-specific settings are parsed by the corresponding driver
• Modularized driver wrappers in Video2X
• Completely redesigned GUI
• Added stop button (or actually making it do something)
• Added time elapsed, time remaining and processing speed under progress bar
• Added environment variable expansion for paths (e.g., %LOCALAPPDATA%\video2x)
• Redesigned exception handling
• Added soft interruption. setting self.stop_signal = True in Upscaler object stops execution
• Added comments for all drivers in the config file
• Added folder processing functionalities for GUI
• Added drag and drop support
• Upgraded input line edit to table view
• Redesigned UI progress display
• Other tweaks and minor bug fixes
• Added drag and drop support
• Upgraded input line edit to table view
• Redesigned UI progress display
• Other tweaks and minor bug fixes
• Cleaned up some clutters in the code

New in this release compared to beta versions:

• Frame preview
• Output intermediate file if stream migration fails instead of losing all progress
• More GUI options for waifu2x-converter-cpp
• Better about and error dialogs
• Redesigned driver argument parsing procedure that's more accurate
• SRMD-NCNN-Vulkan and Waifu2X-NCNN-Vulkan native multi-threading support
• Bug fixes for preview releases

Checksums:

• video2x-4.0.0-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 55D68C19A986CCC28E7D49888A0541914F6F00E203EE46D519CC7C28F6A0A3BC
• video2x-4.0.0-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 977AC9201A7C4BAA3A18E84AF3622E07A70A441C3821F8D7F361D1680F482E7B

Video2X 4.0.0-beta3

New in this release:

• Added drag and drop support
• Upgraded input line edit to table view
• Redesigned UI progress display
• Other tweaks and minor bug fixes

Checksums:

• video2x-4.0.0_beta3-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 2D724B97CFB8DA4373347B6BE0E81A5346FC628F6F24E764952D1BC117800A5C
• video2x-4.0.0_beta3-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 20DEBE7442AE4BFC90D3711EB9D5342D03C8393B5B2668BE6F28B4F1617D91E7

Video2X 4.0.0-beta2

Lots of improvements and bug fixes compared to the previous version.

• Added stop button (or actually making it do something)
• Added time elapsed, time remaining and processing speed under progress bar
• Added environment variable expansion for paths (e.g., %LOCALAPPDATA%\video2x)
• Redesigned exception handling
• Added soft interruption. setting self.stop_signal = True in Upscaler object stops execution
• Added comments for all drivers in the config file
• Added folder processing functionalities for GUI

Checksums:

• video2x-4.0.0_beta2-win32-light.zip
  • SHA-256: 0641CB40ADB2B0D13B6CEE8D289D44B3C190B5E73F98524203A454C8AFC14D2C
• video2x-4.0.0_beta2-win32-full.zip
  • SHA-256: 3AA61A29DD2945C3F8B22CE0F1E4DEE668D2A2D7975BA9691F27E97E010FF180