VideoLAN Client (VLC) VS Anime4K

VLC - Price: Free Free and open-source media player that plays most multimedia files and DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. (UX/UI feels outdated imo)

Seems to be C, not C++ to me. The C++ code is GUI wrappers to C++ GUI systems.

Hi there! Try with VLC or mpv players, and see if they can play the corrupted video.

VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ comes with an equalizer . https://www.vlchelp.com/android-graphic-equalizer/ provides details.

VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I bought a couple Amcrests just a week ago, and they still operate identically to ones I purchased back in 2017. They have apparently re-branded Dahua's software, since the HTTP APIs are identical, and there are still lots of "Dauha" strings in the configs[0].

I think a lot of the problems with IP cams aren't with the cameras themselves, but the poor state of open-source media players. Getting mplayer, ffplay, or vlc to play nicely with any ipcam has been a Labor of Hercules. If you're using the versions in repos--which are usually quite stale--all bets are off. I've had much better luck using the latest installers, direct from the project websites. So far, VLC seems to work best for me[1].

[0] https://github.com/BourgeoisBear/amdacli

[1] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

You'll need a player like VLC to view your clips. YouTube is built on ffmpeg and will blindly accept your videos. If you want to edit your clips you might have to convert your videos to another format and codec, depending on your editing tools of choice.

VLC Media Player

You will need a torrent app (https://www.qbittorrent.org/) to download the video files, then something to view them with (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/)

If you want to avoid manual processing, Anime4K runs in real time as a GLSL shader you can load into MPV (or Plex or something called IINA according to the readme) and still gives great results.

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

Players like VLC do much better and let you make your own arbitrary adjustments via GLSL :)

In particular, I like the anime4k shader pack, which is ML-based but runs in real time in mpv (and I think VLC as well). While it is tuned for anime (as is obvious from the name), it has decent denoise and deblur which often make YT content more watchable and a restore step that does a really good job with compression artifacts but is a bit too tuned for anime so may not always work, or even make things worse. See https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/releases

Anime 4k

You can start with the Anime4k setup guide: https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/blob/master/md/GLSL_Instructions_Windows.md

Personally, it's not really any better than mpv filters like NIS [0] (Nvidia Image Scaling, which does not use AI but is somehow more sharp than these filters) as well as Anime4k [1] (which does use AI but only in the training phase to create the initial glsl file which then does not use AI inferencing but plain old image filters).

Combine mpv with its yt-dlp [2] and SponsorBlock support [3] and you have a competent way to upscale your own YouTube (and other types of [4]) videos.

[0] https://gist.github.com/agyild/7e8951915b2bf24526a9343d951db...

[1] https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

[2] https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/replace-youtube-dl-with-yt-...

[3] https://github.com/po5/mpv_sponsorblock

[4] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....

just use https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K instead if you bo bothered setting it up

It sometimes feels like upscaling was made by anime fans when I look at them on github https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

Wait till you see this one https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K also https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN looks impressive.