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Introduction

This is a port of Anime4K to Metal. It dynamically translates GLSL shaders to Metal shaders and applies them in order during video playback. All shaders and presets from the Anime4K project should work regardless of performance.

Requirements

Pre-built binaries

Download in Releases.

Screenshots

macOS

iOS

tvOS

Preset demos

All presets are the same as defined the official Anime4K instructions.

Anime4K: Mode A+A (HQ) on 48-core M1 Ultra

Anime4K: Mode A+A (Fast) on iPad mini (6th generation) (A15)

Anime4K: Mode A (Fast) on Apple TV 4K (A10X)

Single shader demos (old version)

Anime4K_Restore_CNN_M.glsl on Apple M1

Anime4K_Restore_GAN_UUL.glsl on 5700XT

Anime4K_Deblur_DoG.glsl on Apple TV 4K (A10X)

Original image

*Note: The above footages are only for demo purpose.

How to use

Only mp4 files with yuv420 pixel format are supported by the OS built-in decoder. Other formats must be converted to the supported format.

Pick shader or preset

Pick the desired shader or preset under Shader selection section. Not all shaders and presets will run well on all devices. If you see obvious dropped frames please use a smaller shader or preset instead. Large shaders and presets will take longer time to convert and compile. In the meantime the app will appear not responsive.

Play from URL

On tvOS no local file can be accessed. You can start a HTTP server (for example nginx) on macOS and play from URL on tvOS.

Click the cell Input URL. Input URL (http://xxx). Then click done and Play. The video should start playing

Play from file

On iOS and macOS you can simply click Select file and pick a local file to play.

Building

  1. Clone this project:
git clone https://github.com/imxieyi/Anime4KMetal.git
cd Anime4KMetal
git submodule update --init
  1. Open Anime4KMetal.xcodeproj.
  2. Select target and build. For macOS please use Anime4KMetal (iOS).

Test shader converter

To test the shader converter simply launch the XCTest suite on a target device.

There are a ton of shader warnings due to unused variables. These messages can be ignored.

Known issues

License

This project is licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

Credits