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How To Setup Animate4K

Animate4K is a AI anime upsampling plugin for video player, its usage is not limited by anime, you can use it on other material although not optimized.

Herer I documented how I installed this thing mainly to serve myself. Then i think this may also benefit you. So here it is.

1. Download mpv.net player

https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases/

2. Download Anime4K shader files

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/releases

3. Set key bindings for Anime4K

  1. Open mpv.net player

  2. right click -> Settings -> Open Config Folders

  3. Create a new folder named 'shaders' in this config folder

  4. Put everything in Anime4K.zip into the root of the folder 'shaders'

  5. Edit the input.conf by text editor

  6. Insert code in scetion4 to the end of the input.conf ( Here I changed the original key binding CTRL+NUM to CTRL+Alt+NUM to avoid collision )

  7. After that you can use CTRL+Alt+1 , CTRL+Alt+2, CTRL+Alt+3 to toggle Anime4K

  8. You can use CTRL+Alt+0 to disable Anime4K

4. Code You need to insert to configuration file

(Eg. GTX 1080, RTX 2070, RTX 3060, RX 590, Vega 56, 5700XT, 6600XT)
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CTRL+Alt+1 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode A (HQ)"
CTRL+Alt+2 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode B (HQ)"
CTRL+Alt+3 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_Denoise_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode C (HQ)"
CTRL+Alt+4 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode A+A (HQ)"
CTRL+Alt+5 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode B+B (HQ)"
CTRL+Alt+6 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_Denoise_CNN_x2_VL.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode C+A (HQ)"

CTRL+Alt+0 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders clr ""; show-text "GLSL shaders cleared"
(Eg. GTX 980, GTX 1060, RX 570)
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CTRL+Alt+1 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode A (Fast)"
CTRL+Alt+2 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode B (Fast)"
CTRL+Alt+3 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_Denoise_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode C (Fast)"
CTRL+Alt+4 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_S.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode A+A (Fast)"
CTRL+Alt+5 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_Soft_S.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode B+B (Fast)"
CTRL+Alt+6 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders set "~~/shaders/Anime4K_Clamp_Highlights.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_Denoise_CNN_x2_M.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x2.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_AutoDownscalePre_x4.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Restore_CNN_S.glsl;~~/shaders/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_S.glsl"; show-text "Anime4K: Mode C+A (Fast)"

CTRL+Alt+0 no-osd change-list glsl-shaders clr ""; show-text "GLSL shaders cleared"
Last update: 2023-06-28
Created: 2023-06-28