Topaz Video AI Linux Beta v5.0.3.0.b

Video AI Video AI Beta
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Quite mind-blowing Phil!
It is indeed working just as you suggested, plus passing the bin and lib paths as the location of the dynamic dependencies!
Would also add that the login via browser worked, and GPU encoding (nvidia open kernel drivers - 3070) is also working without pointing to the CUDA install ^^

As a little reference guide for the readers:

  1. extract the .deb archive
  2. create a directory somewhere (I use one created inside /opt)
  3. extract also control and data and put the content into directories with the same name
  4. cd into data/opt/TopazVideoAIBETA/bin/
  5. mark Topaz Video AI Beta as executable if it is not already chmod +x Topaz\ Video\ AI\ BETA
  6. check if the software is missing dynamic dependencies ldd Topaz\ Video\ AI\ BETA | grep 'not found', which in my case are libvideoio.so and libcloudprocessing.so
  7. Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to point to their location, which would be the same directory as the program (bin) for this release with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./
  8. check again for missing dependencies as in point “6” and link as in “7”, which in my case are now libopencv_world.so.405, libavcodec.so.60, libavformat.so.60, libavutil.so.58, libswscale.so.7, all present in the lib directory, 1 level up the current bin.
    8.1) since we are adding another directory, we need to append it to the previous one by means of a semi-column like such: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:../lib
  9. launch the program and enjoy! ./Topaz\ Video\ AI\ BETA
    9.1) to not have to repeat all the process, you can directly launch it via this command: cd /path/to/the/topaz-ai/data/opt/TopazVideoAIBETA/bin/ && LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-1>:<path-2>:<path-n> ./Topaz\ Video\ AI\ BETA
    9.2) tip: create a variable on your shell, so you can launch it via a single simple command, i.e. TOPAZ.
    I personally did it by adding this to my .bash_aliases (.bashrc, if you don’t source it)
# topaz beta
topazpath='/path/to/the/topaz-ai/data/opt/TopazVideoAIBETA/bin/'
topazld='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:../lib'
alias TOPAZ="cd $topazpath && $topazld ./Topaz\ Video\ AI\ BETA"

I still have to test it deeply,
at the moment have just rendered a 5 second 4K using Theia and Themis, and the only problem I got is that I needed to drag the clip into the program, as browsing it was not finding the clip, the directory was just seen as empty, as those clips were not recognized as ‘video file’…

Hope this helps someone!
Will report back things as I find them :slight_smile:

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