[GUIDE] VapourSynth + QTGMC Deinterlace + Hybrid UI FAQ for macOS

[Selur]

The funny thing is that Waifu2x-w2xc is rather legacy and very slow, but it don't need Vulkan SDK. l33tmeatwad recommend to use faster Waifu2x NCNN Vulkan instead.

Hybrid does support both. (can't test since the vm has no hardware acceleration)

Since the VM does not support snapshots (without breaking the vm), it would be nice if someone could test the installer and check which of the:
* csrutil disable
* sudo spctl --master-disable
* Disable Gatekeeper turning back on automatically after 30 days by typing in Terminal:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security GKAutoRearm -bool NO
* Enabe Gatekeeper by typing in Terminal:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security GKAutoRearm -bool YES
* sudo defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
are really needed.

Are they only needed during installation or are they needed for Hybrid to work?
Depending on that i would adjust the README.rtf:

This Package includes:

• ‘Hybrid and Plugins’
 Which includes:
◦ the Hybrid .app-package from https://www.selur.de/
◦ a bunch of VapourSynth filters
◦ ‘D2V Witch 4’ from https://github.com/dubhater/D2VWitch which indexes various video streams and writes D2V files. These will be used in Hybrid with the VapourSynth plugin d2vsource.
• ‘VapourSynth R52’ installer which is needed to use VapourSynth inside Hybrid
• XQuartz 2.7.11 from https://www.xquartz.org/ which is required by Hybrid to read image sequences through the VapourSynth ImageReader.
• VulkanSDK 1.2.148.1 from https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home which is required by to run Vulkan based VapourSynth filters in Hybrid, i.e. Waifu2x nvk and SRMD

Typical install order would be:
1. Open "VapourSynth+Plugins+Scripts+Hybrid-2020.10.10.dmg"
2. Install "VapourSynth-R52.pkg"
3. Install "Hybrid 2020.09.15 and Plugins.pkg"
4. Install "XQuartz.pkg" (optional)
5. Install Vulkan (optional):
    Open "vulkansdk-macos-1.2.148.1.dmg"
    Open Terminal & browse with the following command:
    cd /Volumes/vulkansdk-macos-1.2.148.1
    Run the following command to install:
    sudo ./install_vulkan.py

For questions and problems you can get support over at https://forum.selur.net .

Cu Selur
Ps.: Sadly QCreator and it's tools do not work on m1 Macs atm. see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85279 and https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-h...nd-targets, so using a new m1 Mac isn't even an option atm.

[Selur]

Instead of using:

sudo defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

to disable quarantine for downloads in general one could:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file

to just remove the quarantine for specific files or with

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Library/Frameworks/VapourSynth.framework/lib/vapoursynth/*

one cloud disable the quarantine for all the vapoursynth plugins.
with

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hybrid.app/

one cloud disable the quarantine for all the files in the Hybrid.app and with

xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/D2VWitch.app/

the same could be done for D2VWitch.

Cu Selur

[shijan]

Seems you put legacy Xquartz and legacy vulkansdk versions to the installer

[Selur]

yup, thought they might still be needed,..

[shijan]

I mean you put old versions to the new package. Why?
Current XQuartz is 2.8.0 and VulkanSDK is 1.2.170.0

[shijan]

It also probably make sense to update FranceBB LUTs https://github.com/FranceBB/LinearTransformation
By the way, inside Hybrid there are still few legacy duplicates of those LUTs with slightly different names.

[shijan]

Hybrid_2021.04.05.1 Released and now available as standalone app or as installer package with VapourSynth and Plugins directly from developer's website http://www.selur.de/downloads

Same time i still continue to support and update my "extended" package as unofficial backup.

[koma]

Thank you guys for building the complete package for macOS, it works good. I just found a small problem. When the job is nearly finished and is creating the output mp4 with MP4Box it is not creating any output file, it just hangs at this point in the job. When i switch to use ffmpeg instead of MP4Box it just works as planed. Is this a known bug? Thank you in advance.

[Selur]

Hard to tell without a debug output,...
Wild guess: the used MP4Box version has some problem with the used streams,...

[shijan]

I didn't used Hybrid package for some time, and today i noticed that for some unknown reason Hybrid 2021.04.06 always double speed transcoded footage when i use "bob" option in deinterlacer. So i installed newer 2021.04.12 version and it fixed the problem. I really have no idea if it was some bug or some unknown settings glitch in my system, but anyway i decide to update my package to more resent version.

VapourSynth+Plugins+Scripts+Hybrid-2021.07.13 package updates:
VapourSynth-R53
XQuartz 2.8.1
VulkanSDK 1.2.182.0 (seems new Vulcan installer needs manual fix for Mojave https://vulkan.lunarg.com/issue/view/609...3ca1602dfa )
Hybrid 2021.04.12
FFmpeg 2021-07-11
ScriptsInHybrid 2021.07.11
FranceBB LUTs 2021.07.12

DOWNLOAD package from Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing