The aarg_upscale repo hosts a Python command-line wrapper designed to upscale video files based on k4yt3x/video2x.

Features

• Easy to use wrapper for video2x.
• Option to keep the original files or transparently replace after upscaling (transparent replacement is good for plex directories, where one may not want the old video files present).
• Process an entire directory of video files or a single file.

Prerequisites

• Docker installed and running on your system.
• Nvidia container toolkit.
• Sudo privileges for running Docker commands.

Installation

Ubuntu / Nvidia

1. If not installed already, install docker on ubuntu following the official docs.
   • Check installation with sudo docker run hello-world
2. Install nvidia container toolkit using the official guide. This allows gpu acceleration inside of the docker container.
3. Pull latest docker image (see releases here).
   • At the time of writing docker pull ghcr.io/k4yt3x/video2x:5.0.0-beta6

Other OS / GPUs

To be added later, as of now not supported. May be possible to do any combination of [MacOS|Windows|Arch] OS and [AMD|Intel|Nvidia] GPU.

Usage

Upscale all .avi files in a directory to 1080p and convert them to .mp4, keeping the original files:

python aarg_upscale.py -d some/directory -t 1080 -i .avi -o .mp4 -k

Upscale a single video file to 720p and convert it to .mp4, removing the original file:

python aarg_upscale.py -p some/directory/video.avi -t 720 -o .mp4

License

MIT License

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