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Update: I checked and NVenc AV1 encoding works fine but if Interpolate option is chosen it does not work. It stops as 'Done' at that stage without interpolation.

No file is generated.

Hi Matuszewski, my apologies for not getting back to you. After you mentioned about AV1 being too slow, I had completely lost hope.

But you came through - I am grateful to you. And I am loving the new GUI options including Nvidia, AMD, Intel. I have Nvidia 40 series GPU coincidentally and its working great.  Although I have noticed that the Interpolation is no longer working. When using NVenc AV1 it goes up to 'upscaled_foldername' stage -> finishes upscalling and then creates "Interpolated_upscaled_foldername" but then simply stops. I will check with other sample videos to reproduce the issue and report back.

I have one final request and I hope you please consider - Kindly include the option for selecting between 8bit and 10bit encoding. 

I am a big Anime fan and I would like to encode my videos in 10bit especially to avoid any color banding issues seen in 8bit encoding.

This is the CLI syntax I have been using on my end.

-vsync cfr -c:v libsvtav1 -qp 35 -temporal_aq 1 -rc-lookahead 24 -preset 6 -svtav1-params tune=0:enable-tf=0:enable-overlays=1:enable-qm=1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le

Here the ffmpeg pix_fmt I have set it to 'yuv420p10le'. [Alternatively (not 100% sure) as per NVenc guide we can use 'p010le']

NVEnc AV1 also supports 2 pass encoding. As an example, here is a command line from fastflix.

"C:\apps\Program Files\FastFlix\NVEncC_7.33_x64\NVEncC64.exe" --avsw --device 0 -i "D:\Video Upscale Process\Dual parallel trouble adventure\TEST\upscaled_Dual Test.mkv" --video-metadata clear --metadata clear --chapter-copy -c av1 --cqp 30 --bref-mode disabled --preset quality --tier high --lookahead 24 --aq-temporal --aq-strength 0 --level auto --chromaloc auto --colorrange auto --colormatrix bt470bg --transfer auto --colorprim auto --output-depth 10 --multipass 2pass-full --mv-precision Auto --avsync forcecfr  --audio-copy 1 --audio-metadata 1?language=jpn --audio-disposition 1?default   -m default_mode:infer_no_subs -o "D:\Video Upscale Process\Spirited\Encoding\Encoded\upscaled_Dual Test-fastflix-a280.mkv"

This is my humble request to make it perfect - to either provide as an option to choose between 8bit and 10bit or just change the switch in the command itself and make it default 10bit encoding.

Thanks for trying. It is a real shame about aom-av1. Though have you tried libsvtav1 instead? The svt-av1 is much faster encoding than libaom-av1.

Thank you so much for doing this! Your project will continue to be useful for many years to come.

Hi Matuszewski, First of all I really like your the upscaler that you have built. Very useful - more than it lets on. Ability to either automate or pick stages is a god send capability. Sometimes i have noticed that during merge, the video output is incomplete (i.e. finished video is less than the actual duration). At that time, i run the merge again to create a new video from the interpolated-upscaled images without restarting from begining. 

I have also used Waifu2x Extension from AArong - but your quality output is somehow better? Videos with burned in subtitles does not glitch in the upscaled output. His does for some reason. Also your interpolation is somehow much smoother too?

However, i have a feedback. Your upscaler is stuck to H.264 - not even H.265 or AV1. Yes, H.264 is most stable but since we can use merge option for failed encodes, we do not have to worry. Please add AV1 as an option in the output. Don't bother with any of the hardware encoders they are hot garbage anyways.

I need your help - I have tried to change the 'GUI.pyw' to include AV1 encoding: 

-vsync cfr -c:v libsvtav1 -qp 42 -preset 7 -svtav1-params tune=0:enable-tf=0:enable-overlays=1:enable-qm=1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le

Instead of the H.264 output video line in merge section.

I confess i am very poor at coding because i tried to save the GUI.pyw file after editing but the output is still H.264? I checked all instances of ffmpeg and try to specify the above line but its not taking at all.

As a disclaimer, i would like to state that the above experiment was only for my own personal home use and no other purpose since i wanted AV1 level compression to work with your excellent upscaler.

Kindly let me know.

Thanks for your reply. I am noob but since APKs are no longer being released and joiplay is the only way to play as per instruction. I did play it using Joiplay and it works fine but I don't know why but the UI Transparency setting gets broken. (On Windows your AVN runs flawless)

Please if you have time, test it yourself and see this issue. Thanks.

Thank you so much. :-)

The UI transparency setting is broken when played on Android using Joiplay. Does anyone experience the same?

I have posted my comment informing this earlier too but no response. 

On Android, the UI Transparency does not work at all! I tried to make the dialogue window as simplistic (Transparent) but it does not do any thing. 

I even tried to make changes to the save file and then port over the file to my android, again no change.

Can anyone help? The Dark UI dialogue window is very distracting and reduces visiblity of half of the screen image.

That is strange considering this is a Samsung phone.. their OS is pretty well configured. I have upgraded smoothly so far from the beginning versions.. only to get stuck here.

Hi Caribdis, I recently updated my 0.4 version to 0.5 version on my android phone. Since then none of the saves are loading anymore. I am far in the VN and I don't want to restart from the very beginning. 

Please could you help? I am loving the game so far. 

Regards 

Are you serious? Nah you're joking, right?

Never give up. Keep releasing more.

Bruh.. you missed big time. I have not met her again but it was crazy awesome that scene escalated so quickly.

I was like.. huh.. so early? Maybe Caribdis is trying to test animation or something. 😀

ROFL

@Caribdis,  hey do you know there is a new illusion game in town? Have you tried it?

Will you make your future illustrations using its character models and studio?

@Caribdis, you know the premise is verry very loosely resembles SAO2. But totally different. 

The mustache grizzly bearded student resembles one character in Beelzebub anime.

@Caribdis, i just played the Alex section where you meet her father. At the end there is a beautiful montage where Alex sits in the evening light and there is a beautiful guitar song playing. I cannot stress how much touching and apt it was to close that scene like that.

Can i have the song name? "I am lost but I want to be forgiven.."

I didn't change the scene slide and kept listening to the whole song. I must add it to my library.

I will always welcome more girl introductions. They are all perfect and unique. But thats the thing. Keep as many girls as it makes sense and doesn't dilute the uniqueness of their characters. 

I have played many Harem galge where many girls were introduced but were clichéd and factory run of the mill kind. That's why lately I have taken a break from J-RPG VN altogether. The stories don't take a risk or tell something memorable apart from dropping random but unsatisfactory "scenes" to pass the Tag category.

Hi Caribdis, it worked!! Thanks for reuploading the game version. Now I am at 0.4.0 version.  Should I upgrade to 0.4.1 release version from the other link?

Also, again you are very creative and imaginative. I have played other VN games from Itch.io but yours are a class apart. And your quick replies to your community shows your passion! Keep it up, I'll keep cheering you on!!

Hi Caribdis, Love your games. But i am running into an issue. While updating my game on Android from 0.3 to 0.4.1, i am getting the error "Could not install as the package is invalid". I tried to download the other "if it crashes" version but the download link no longer exists. (Can you tell me the best way to upgrade without losing my game saves on Android?)

I just want to say your games are the best and I especially loved the part where protagonist has to go into that house to retrieve something ;-) . That just blew my mind and kept me on the edge.