The next release of the VEAI 3 alpha is now available! Please note that these initial releases only utilize a subset of FFmpeg features - some features available in general FFmpeg builds may not be available in this build. Source code and redistributables for custom builds are available, so advanced users may be able to enable additional features as desired.
Changelog
Memory leak addressed
Frame interpolation filter added
(Mac) Setup script now adds to .zshrc and .bashrc
(Mac) Setup script can better handle some startup scenarios
Windows Installation
Extract the downloaded zip file to a location of your choice
Run the “run-me" file appropriate for your graphics card.
You will be prompted to confirm the auto-detected models location. In most situations, you should be able to just enter “Y”
Follow the on-screen prompts to login to TopazLabs.com and enter your VEAI options
VEAI will run on your files
Once complete you can either exit the window, or type additional commands (see Advanced Usage)
Mac Installation
Extract the downloaded txz file to a location of your choice
Using terminal, run ./installer.command file to set appropriate environment variables.
Run veai-ffmpeg/bin/login email password
Run veai-ffmpeg/run-me.sh input.mp4 to process using Video Toolbox.
Advanced Usage
If you have an existing models folder, you may select it by setting the VEAI_MODEL_DIR setting in your system environment variables. If you do not already have downloaded models in this folder, you will need to copy the model JSON files from the download into this folder. It will then be detected by run-me.bat
Mac users: this variable is automatically set in .bashrc and .zshrc when you run the setup script, make changes to the existing entries if needed.
(Windows) After run-me.bat finishes, you can execute additional VEAI sessions by running FFmpeg. See the end of run-me.bat for an example.
As an example: ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "input.mp4" -vf veai_up="scale=2:model=amq-12" "input-2x.mp4" would upscale input by 2x using AMQ 12, saving the output to input-2x.mp4
(Mac) The ffmpeg command can be invoked similarly to perform additional VEAI sessions.
Available Scaling Models
aaa-10 : Artemis Aliased & Moire v10
aaa-9 : Artemis Aliased & Moire v9
ahq-11 : Artemis High Quality v11
ahq-12 : Artemis High Quality v12
alq-12 : Artemis Low Quality v12
alq-13 : Artemis Low Quality v13
alqs-1 : Artemis Strong Dehalo v1
alqs-2 : Artemis Strong Dehalo v2
amq-12 : Artemis Medium Quality v12
amq-13 : Artemis Medium Quality v13
amqs-1 : Artemis Dehalo v1
amqs-2 : Artemis Dehalo v2
ddv-2 : Dione Interlaced DV v2
ddv-3 : Dione Interlaced DV v3
dtd-4 : Dione Interlaced Robust v4
dtds-2 : Dione Interlaced Robust Dehalo v2
dtv-4 : Dione Interlaced TV v4
dtvs-2 : Dione Interlaced Dehalo v2
gcg-6 : Gaia Computer Graphics v6
ghq-6 : Gaia High Quality v6
prob-1 : Proteus 6-Parameter v1
prob-2 : Proteus 6-Parameter v2
thd-3 : Theia Fine Tune Detail v3
thd-4 : Theia Fine Tune Detail v4
thf-5 : Theia Fine Tune Fidelity v5
Available Interpolation Models
chf-1 : Chronos Fast v1
chf-2 : Chronos Fast v2
chf-3 : Chronos Fast v3
chr-1 : Chronos Slo-Mo / FPS Conversion v1
chr-2 : Chronos Slo-Mo / FPS Conversion v2
Licenses
FFmpeg is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later (LGPL v2.1+). A copy of this license can be found here .
OpenH264 is licensed under the BSD license. A copy can be found here
libvpx is licensed under the BSD license. A copy can be found here
I have tried several times to run this installation unsuccessfully
I have a Windows i9 Pc with a NVidia Geforce RTX 3080 display card.
I have tried to run both the Nvidia run-me and the Intel and I am thrown out when entering my user email and password. I am new to Alpha testing so what am I doing wrong?
Hi, keep getting “Please set the VEAI_MODEL_DIR environment variable to a writable models directory path “”” on my mac.
Folder is writeable and the ~/.bashrc AND ~/.zshrc contain the models path…
Error occurs after install and veai-ffmpeg/bin/login email password
Can you try removing the added lines in ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc, and then re-download the alpha before running the installer again? I’ve made a small tweak to the installer that will be reflected in a new download.
It worked once, but it took the models folder from a previous install, although the bashrc and zshrc files looked ok.
When I processed it gave an authentication error, which i can’t reproduce anymore…
I just tried piping output from Vapoursynth (QTGMC deinterlace / denoise / derainbow, downscale & a few others) directly into veai-ffmpeg to upscale with Proteus, all in one command-line operation.
3.0.0.2a stores processed frames permanently. Therefore the processed part of a video can already be played while processing of the rest will continue. Also processing awake again with the PC coming out of energy savings mode. If that will be available in the final VEAI release that will be a great feature.
Also if there is a crash or if the user terminates the processing(pause) the video can still play. Later with the GUI app a resume/recover feature will be added to continue processing where it was left of.
Will add a do not sleep option to the filters so machine will not go to sleep.
