Hi, I need a video upscaling solution to enhance some old family videos. As much as I’d love to use a FOSS program, I can’t find anything that comes close to Topaz Video AI.
I purchased the license and I’ve been battling with the application for a week trying to get it running on Linux. I’ve tried Wine, Bottles, Lutris, ProtonGE and tinkering with prefixes.
I’ve read on the Topaz community forums that people have got it working previously on Linux, but I’ve been unable to replicate their setup.
On the forums they said it takes a performance hit on Linux, but I’m willing to deal with that to avoid Windows. In the end I may have to purchase a copy of Windows for the first time in over decade to run this app, but I’m not going to give up without a good effort.
Does anyone have any experience with this application or know of a similar application working on Linux? I’m also willing to run older versions of the client just to use it, anything but a Windows install please!
Thank you!
There is Video2x which is open source, so should have no trouble running on Linux (pretty sure I’ve run it on Linux without issue).
https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
Main issue I’ve had is that it generally smooths things out rather than really “adding” detail. So I can’t say it’s the best tool, but I also haven’t seen better results in any of the free trials of the laid software I’ve tried.