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submitted 11 months ago by patchwork@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hi, I need a video upscaling solution to enhance some old family videos. As much as I’d love to use a FOSS program, I can’t find anything that comes close to Topaz Video AI.

I purchased the license and I’ve been battling with the application for a week trying to get it running on Linux. I’ve tried Wine, Bottles, Lutris, ProtonGE and tinkering with prefixes.

I’ve read on the Topaz community forums that people have got it working previously on Linux, but I’ve been unable to replicate their setup.

On the forums they said it takes a performance hit on Linux, but I’m willing to deal with that to avoid Windows. In the end I may have to purchase a copy of Windows for the first time in over decade to run this app, but I’m not going to give up without a good effort.

Does anyone have any experience with this application or know of a similar application working on Linux? I’m also willing to run older versions of the client just to use it, anything but a Windows install please!

Thank you!

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[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You could use ffmpeg or python to split the video into a sequence of images and an audio file, then AI upscale the images using Upscayl, and finally combine the upscaled images and audio back into a video, using ffmpeg.

I've seen issues in the past where the audio would be out-of-sync when recombining the frames because ffmpeg wouldn't output the right number of frames, so someone wrote a python script to split the video into frames and apparently it works correctly.

Also see: https://superuser.com/questions/1758192/how-can-i-split-a-video-into-frames-and-then-reassemble-it-with-the-audio-too

[-] patchwork@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Wow, I didn’t think of that. Thank you!

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