I suppose that’s fine, if you are upscaling family home videos with basic LR stereo, but forget it if you want to keep the original 7.1 Dolby Atmos in the upscale by using the “keep audio” option.
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Why output model usually wrong from what I picked???
There’s an annoying bug now where if you change from Low/Medium/High, it will show the recommended model, but it won’t actually change your active model. You need to click the dropdown menu to select it again. If you import a vid, and the default is GHQ, if you swap to for example Medium preset, it will show AQ at the top, but the applied model is still GHQ, you you need to manually select AQ again. Your active model is displayed on the bottom right.
This really needs to be fixed.
For people using Nvidia cards (mine 1080Ti) , I was getting random lock-ups and after looking into it for some time, I found the Nvidia HD Audio device driver was the problem - i’m not the first to have this issue.
I disabled it in device manager (because uninstalling it just comes back after reboot) and PC has been on for 6 days! Couldn’t get more than a few hours out of it before that. I re-enabled it and lock-ups just come back.
I now need to see if I can use optical for the sound now!
Send a message with Taylor Bishop tagged in it. There’s only a day or so before the next release.
Perhaps the developers or the Topaz Team responsible for VEAI could consider an idea that came to me yesterday (yes, it is insane, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask):
How about (if that were possible) adding a sort of “Genre Templates” that users could add to existing models to adjust them more specifically? What I mean by that: The already existing models have been trained on a variety of “basics” (like people, faces, objects and such) and on different source quality levels (low res, high res, with artefacts and such), but what about creating templates according to genres, that will “tell” each of the models to more specifically address issues that are source dependant, no matter what model has been chosen - a couple of examples that I thought of yesterday:
- Template “Action”: Focuses more on fast moving visual elements and avoid tearing/smearing and/or problems with lines/edges
- Template “Sitcom”: Focuses more on people and faces (close-ups) with indoor scenes
- Template “Fantasy”: Focuses on the on-screen fusion of real life action and cgi/vfx elements (like blend animation or green screen and such)
- Template “SciFi”: Focuses on dark scenes with difficult lighting and vfx/cgi or model shots with rainbowing around edges
- Template “Anime/Cartoon”: Focuses on lines and edge preservation as well as block artefacting and banding on large color areas
These could be done as a sort of “buy-in” option, so people could choose which templates they want; you could do a trial period for people to decide, offer discounts on template packs with templates from similar areas of interest (like SciFi & Fantasy) and so on.
Just a thought, that way to could financially compensate the work involved.
Now that an official Windows 11 build is released to insiders, I would be able to test VEAI as a beta tester. 
yeah, you just remux original audio to upscaled video with mkvtoolnix. Doing that also helps you to complete the video, which is sometimes messed up by VEAI. The file output by VEAI is somehow usually troublesome, either .mp4 and .mov
Interesting idea. You should really post it in the ‘Video Enhance AI Feature Requests’ topic in the Beta Testing section.
Hi all,
A new version of Video Enhance AI is available. You can view the release thread and download the new version here.
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