Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan VS video2x

Don't even need topaz, there's plenty of free upscale models check the openmodeldb, and you have reve which is based on Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan.

Real-ESRGAN/GFPGAN https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN (Real-ESRAN - Upscale images, facial restoration with GFPGAN setting) https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN (GFPGAN - Facial restoration and Upscale) -------MATTE AND COMPOSITE--------

If you mean by free software, sure there are options. But you'll spend a lot of time to do that. You can try https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN or similar tools

I’m actually on a Mac using the ncnn Vulkan binaries for Real ESRGAN. It’s not all that flexible but it’s pretty quick. There are other options but I have not looked into it.

I personally use real esrgan and I think it's great. it requires manual work tho but it's easy once you do it a few times

REAL-ESRGAN was used for upscaling (using waifu2x-extension GUI) and can be found here.

Another thing I've been meaning to try, but haven't yet, is hooking up VLC to https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x/wiki or similar, since, yeah, while DVD quality is pretty decent, for certain genres sometimes I do want a bit more luscious detail.

Upscaling? Yup - but it's going to be local (and slow) https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x

I've tried https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x but mostly for anime. The recorded video I tried ended up looking real horror-show, but it was also an ancient 240p video I had hanging around.

You can use video2x to do this (I'd recommend this, as it's free and open source. Works best on animated content imo)