🩹 Bugfix / Improvements 🌍 International Compatibility · Universal language support : Improved stability for users worldwide, fixing potential crashes on systems with non-English regional settings (such as Asian or Cyrillic locales) · Enhanced character handling : The app now natively supports special characters, symbols, and emojis across the entire interface and background processes · Robust…
Hi everyone! With this update, QualityScaler has reached a very stable and complete state. That said, I already have new features in mind to further improve upscaling quality and speed ; these will require some dedicated development time, and I look forward to working on them. In the meantime, I will be focusing 100% on FluidFrames ( link ). If you are interested in high-quality video interpola…
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS General improvements · Various bug fixes and code cleanup · Updated dependencies for improved stability and compatibility ▼ VirusTotal · ▼ ROAD TO 5.0 Get ready! I am working to QualityScaler 5.0. Expect a variety of exciting new features, including powerful new AI models and major library overhauls that will bring better stability across the app.
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS General improvements · Fixed an issue with upscaled video frame loss, particularly on fast PCs or when using AI multithreading with values >4 · Optimised input / output scale system, now faster and less resource-intensive · Various bug fixes and code cleanup · Updated dependencies for improved stability and compatibility ▼ VIRUSTOTAL
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscaling improvements · Improved memory management for video upscaling · Fixed a disk I/O bottleneck during frame saving, leading to significant performance improvements · Performance improved by ≈25% on test PC [ AMD RX6600 + Ryzen 5600 + AI Multithreading: 8 ] · Performance gains on more powerful PCs may range up to ≈100% General improvements · Fixed an issue th…
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Administrator Permissions Required 🔒 ⊡ QualityScaler now requires administrator permissions to work ⊡ This change fixes a bug that was preventing access to the DirectML library on some PCs ⊡ Without access to DirectML , the GPU couldn't be used correctly for AI upscaling
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS New video frames extraction system ⊡ Introduced a new frame extraction engine based on FFmpeg ⊡ Up to 10x faster thanks to full CPU utilization ⊡ Slight improvement video frames quality Upscaled frames save improvements ⊡ Faster saving of upscaled frames with improved CPU usage I/O efficiency improvements ⊡ Disabled Windows Indexer for folders containing video frames ⊡ S…
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS AI Engine Update (v1.22) ⊡ Upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.22 ⊡ Better support for new GPUs (Nvidia 4000/5000, AMD 7000/9000, Intel B500/B700) ⊡ Major optimizations and numerous bug fixes Video AI multithreading ⊡ Up to 4× faster performance on high-end CPU/GPU setups ⊡ Example: AMD 5600 + RX6600 (8 threads) → 2× speed boost ⊡ Fixed improper CPU/GPU utilization when usin…
▼ FLUIDFRAMES 🚀 Hello! I’ve just released another AI-powered app: FluidFrames! It helps you turn low FPS videos into smooth high FPS ones. Check it out if you're interested! ▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscaling improvements ⊡ Fixed a bug that caused upscaling to fail when using high AI multithreading settings ⊡ Optimized AI multithreading behavior for high thread counts, improving stability…
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Fix video encoding issue ⊡ Fixed a problem that did not allow the encoding of the upscaled video with special characters in the path
▼ NEW Completely redesigned GUI ⊡ The app now presents file information more clearly ⊡ Many widgets have been repositioned and grouped by functionalities ⊡ All info widgets have been improved, now displaying additional details for each setting ⊡ Redesigned the entire graphical user interface to deliver a modern, intuitive experience Output resolution widget ⊡ Added a widget for selecting the ou…
▼ NOTE Nvidia GPUs optimizations ⊡ Is essential to enable Windows Hardware Accelerated GPU scheduling option ⊡ This option can dramatically improve upscale performance ⊡ Enable it in Windows 10 / Windows 11 settings > Graphic Settings menu ▼ NEW Keep frames widget ⊡ Added new widget to choose whether to save upscaled video frames ⊡ Selecting “Enabled”, upscaled frames will not be deleted ⊡ This…
▼ NEW AI models update ⊡ Updated AI models using updated tools ⊡ This led to have slightly better upscale quality GPU Auto selection ⊡ Added new "Auto" option in GPU Widget ⊡ Selecting “Auto,” the app automatically choose the most powerful GPU in the PC ⊡ This solves a problem with GPU processing on notebooks with 2 GPUs ▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscale improvements ⊡ Improved video upscal…
▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS FFMPEG audio passthrough ⊡ This feature allows audio to be processed without any alterations (lossless quality) ⊡ Supports multiple audio streams (when a video contains multiple audio tracks) ⊡ This function fix an issue where audio could not be applied to upscaled videos General improvements ⊡ Bug fixes, code cleaning, performance improvements ⊡ Updated dependencies ▼ V…
▼ NEW AI engine improvements ⊡ Optimized AI models for "Half precision" ⊡ This resulted in lower VRAM memory usage and better performance AI multi-threading improvements ⊡ Optimized upscaling speed when using AI multi-threading ⊡ Is now possible to select up to 6 threads (6 video frames simultaneous) ▼ GUI File widget ⊡ The widget to upload files is now much faster ⊡ In particular when uploadin…
▼ NEW Video upscale STOP&RESUME ⊡ Now is possible to stop and resume the video upscale process at any time ⊡ When restarting upscaling (with same settings) the app will resumes from the interrupted point ⊡ NOTE - If video temporary files are deleted, upscaling will start over again User settings save ⊡ The app will now remember all the options of the user (AI model, GPU, GPU VRAM etc.) ⊡ NOTE -…
PLEASE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND SOME PROBLEM ▼ NEW Antivirus problem fix ⊡ After contacting Microsoft, Avast and AVG ⊡ QualityScaler will finally no longer be recognized as Malware by these antivirus IRCNN AI improvements ⊡ IRCNN implementation is now divided into 2 separate models ⊡ IRCNN_Mx1 - (medium denoise) ⊡ IRCNN_Lx1 - (high denoise) ▼ USER INTERFACE Some changes ⊡ Default AI model is Re…
PLEASE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND SOME PROBLEM ▼ NEW Build system ⊡ Changed build system tools (now using Pyinstaller) ⊡ Now using one-file mode (the build tool create only a single portable exe, instead of a folder) ⊡ This should fix the false-positive antivirus problem with Microsoft Defender and other antiviruses ▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS General improvements ⊡ Bug fixes, code cleaning, performa…
▼ NEW Multiple GPUs support ⊡ It's now possible to select up to 4 GPUs for AI acceleration ⊡ Based on the GPU index (visible in the Windows Task Manager) AI models ⊡ Added support for IRCNN, a new AI architecture dedicated to denoising (no upscaling) ⊡ Is a very fast architecture and consumes little VRAM memory ⊡ Is perfect for enhancing photos and videos without altering the resolution ⊡ It ca…
▼ NEW AI multithreading ⊡ Is now possible to upscale multiple video frames simultaneously ⊡ This option can improve video upscaling performance, especially with powerful GPUs ⊡ Can select up to 4 threads (4 frame simultaneously) ⊡ As the number of threads increases, the use of CPU, GPU and RAM memory also increases Output path ⊡ Is now possible to select upscaled files path ⊡ Default value is "…
▼ NEW Multi GPU support ⊡ Reintroduced the possibility to choose the GPU used for AI upscale ⊡ Is possible to choose between "High power GPU" and "Power Saving GPU" ▼ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS Video upscale improvements ⊡ Upscaled video frames will NOT overwrite original frames ⊡ This will make it easier to check upscale quality General improvements ⊡ Bug fixes, code cleaning, performance improveme…
▼ NEW FFMPEG 6.1.1 ⊡ Updated FFMPEG to latest release 6.1.1 (from 4.2) ⊡ A long list of optimizations and bugfixes ⊡ Better support for newer cpus ⊡ Improved quality of upscaled video ▼ USER INTERFACE UI re-design ⊡ Re-designed app widgets positioning for better usability File section improvements ⊡ The app now display the AI input resolution for any files loaded ⊡ The app now display the upsca…
▼ NEW New AI engine ⊡ 2x faster, up to 3x on powerful GPUs ⊡ Uses 50% less VRAM ⊡ Automatically selects the most powerful GPU ⊡ More supported and frequently updated ⊡ Can utilize RAM to supplement GPU VRAM (not recommended for optimal performance) ⊡ SAFMN architecture temporarily removed for incompatibility with new AI engine New AI model ⊡ Added RealESRGANx4 model (high quality, natural resul…
◁ USER INTERFACE ▷ GUI code reorganization ⊡ Code cleaning and GUI fixes (fonts, buttons) ⊡ Added some function for future developments ◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ VRAM limiter ⊡ VRAM limiter fine-tuning to avoid out of memory errors Nuitka 2.0 ⊡ Updated the build tool to version 2.0.1 ⊡ Better overall stability of the whole app ⊡ Better RAM management General improvements ⊡ General bugfixes and…
◁ USER INTERFACE ▷ Redesigned info and error widgets ⊡ now much more elegant and readable ⊡ added new informations for each widget ⊡ highlighted the default value for each widget Some minor fixes ⊡ fixed Telegram button not working correctly ⊡ fixed GitHub button not working correctly ◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ General improvements ⊡ General bugfixes ⊡ General performance improvements ⊡ Updated…
◁ NEW ▷ Image/video metadata copy ⊡ Updated exiftool to version 12.70 ⊡ Support for metadata copy from original videos to upscaled videos Image/video interpolation ⊡ Added more Interpolation options ⊡ Low (30% original / 70% upscaled) ⊡ Medium (50% original / 50% upscaled) ⊡ High (70% original / 30% upscaled) ⊡ Disabled (interpolation disabled) ◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ General improvements ⊡ G…
◁ USER INTERFACE ▷ Minor UI changes ⊡ Added more informations in info texts ⊡ Input Resolution % default value changed to 60% ⊡ Image output default value changed to .png ⊡ Interpolation default value changed to Disabled ◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ General improvements ⊡ General bugfixes ⊡ General performance improvements ⊡ Updated core dependencies ⊡ Redesigned how the app tracks upscale progres…
◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ Video upscaling improvements ⊡ Upscaled video frames will now overwrite original frames (to save disk space) ⊡ For .mp4 output is possibile to select the codec between x264 and x265 ⊡ Improved video bitrate from 4M (default value for ffmpeg) to 16M ⊡ In future will be the possibility to select the desired bitrate General improvements ⊡ For AMD gpu users it is recommend…
◁ NEW ▷ Support for SAFMN AI architecture ⊡ Project GitHub ⊡ Lightweight AI architecture ⊡ Very high upscale quality ⊡ Does not support Half-precision ⊡ Two AI models ( SAFMNLx4 / SAFMNLx4_Real ) ◁ BUGFIX / IMPROVEMENTS ▷ General improvements ⊡ Removed RealESRGANx4 - very similar to BSRGANx4 in quality and speed ⊡ Support for images and videos with special characters in path names ⊡ Updated exi…
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