VAI dockerized for headless linux use

Topaz Video AI Video AI Beta
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I know of at least one other customer that has the same need as I; running VAI in a headless setup using Docker on Linux, As such I’ve gone ahead and published the repo I’m using on github: vai-docker

It streamlines getting the software setup, “logging in”, and running the VAI-engine using the Topaz provided ffmpeg binary. The project’s readme will hopefully answer any question regarding use.

Since we’ve had some challenges getting Topaz Labs employees to reproduce some linux reported bugs, I hope that this will also help in that regard.

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It’s fantastic. I don’t know why Topaz provides official docker images, but this build repository is artistic.

EDIT: It looks like you’re building the image with version 3.4.4.0.b, can I arbitrarily raise the version?

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Happy new year, and yes :slight_smile:

I used to just change the version and the corresponding SHA2 hash in the dockerfile directly.

But your comment made me realize this should be made more streamlined, so I updated the repository to make the process a lot easier. How you’d achieve this now:

make build VAI_VERSION=<version to use> \
           VAI_SHA2=<sha256 hash of the deb file for that version>

For people’s convenience, I’ve published the sha2 hashes of all beta builds up to now that I could find, so for now you don’t need to download the gigabyte file first and compute the hash yourself. For future releases however, you’d need to do that yourself, since I’ll not be updating the repository for each topazlabs release. The exact steps how to do that is provided in the readme file.

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Thank you so much, your work has helped me tremendously.

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