[HELP] BasicVSR++ / Hybrid dev build?

[Selur]

No clue what you are doing.
"Crop/Resize->Resize->Picture Resize" allows changing the output resolution.
"Filtering->Vapoursynth->Frame->Resize->Resize" allows overwriting the generic resizer choice with a Vapoursynth specific one, i.e. BasicVSR++.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use the program.

Hybrid might simply not a program meant for you.

Cu Selur

[lschafroth]

Well it appears I was over complicating it. It kind of makes sense now. Strange interface but now that I understand how it is laid out, I can make it work.
I have the process started and will see how it goes. Wish it has a status bar to show the progress of the job but I can watch the job logs.

Thanks! Fingers crossed.

Lannie

[Selur]

I have the process started and will see how it goes. Wish it has a status bar to show the progress of the job, but I can watch the job logs.

Job tab show both, job and subjob progress, Config->View also allows some adjustment to the reporting.

Have fun with it.

Cu Selur

[lschafroth]

The top of the Progress column says 16.67% and never changes.  If I expand the jobs it shows the first step complete which is generating the vaporsynth file. Now it is on the Encoding video step with no indication of progress.  The GPU is 100% utilization so it's doing something.

Lannie

[Selur]

The top shows the general job progress, unless a sub job is finished it does not change.
The speed on the subjob progress depends on your settings, your source and hardware.
If for example, you use a filter that first builds a TensorRT engine file, building that file might take quite a link time. (during the engine creating, the filters usually don't show any progress, so nothing Hybrid could report).
All machine learning filters might take quite a long time before there is anything Hybrid could report.
I would recommend using the Vapoursynth Preview to see how long the filtering&co takes.

Cu Selur

[lschafroth]

It crashed anyway:

2024-08-14@08_09_32_8910_02_video crashed: ERROR: C:\Users\profile\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-08-14@08_09_32_8910_02.264 is too small! (byteSize: 0byte)
Aborting '2024-08-14@08_09_32_8910_02_video' due to: ERROR: C:\Users\profile\AppData\Local\Temp\2024-08-14@08_09_32_8910_02.264 is too small! (byteSize: 0byte)

This was during the x264 encoding phase.

Lannie

[Selur]

Can't help since I don't know what you are doing.
First I would try the Vapoursynth Preview and see whether that works, if that works encoding normally works fine too. (assuming you are not running out of memory and your system is stable)
Read the sticky about what info to provide, share the debug output and info if you want help.

[lschafroth]

Just loaded a simple MP4 video that is 1280x720.  Upscaling to 1920x1080 with the steps you provided. Resize, then use vaporsynth filters and choosing BasicVSR++ as the filter.

The only setting I changed was device 0 for the GPU.  Changed x264 to constant quality with CRF of 12.

[Selur]

did you read what I wrote,..?