Aniflow v1.4

Bug-fix release. Every item below was measured, not guessed.

Fixed

• AI mode colour shift on untagged sources. Videos without a colour-matrix tag (common in fansub/older encodes) were converted with bt601 during frame extraction, permanently shifting colours (green channel +14 on HD). The matrix tag is now read; when missing it is guessed from resolution (SD → bt470bg, HD → bt709), the same rule the RIFE path already used.
• 10-bit sources in AI mode produced 16-bit PNGs (2.7× temp disk) that Real-ESRGAN reads as 8-bit anyway. Extraction now writes 8-bit RGB directly (dithered).
• "Could not read input resolution" with 1080p/1440p/2160p targets, and missed audio/subtitle codecs in MP4 decisions: ffmpeg's stream line was being wrapped at console width before parsing.
• Cancelled or failed jobs left a half-written output next to the source (and pushed the next run to _2). It is now removed.
• Queue stopped silently if the 2nd or later file could not start (e.g. unreadable file + "p" target), leaving the UI busy. Each file is now isolated; the error is logged and the queue continues.
• Sleep action hibernated on machines with hibernation enabled (rundll32 SetSuspendState quirk).
• Extra ffmpeg parameters containing | < > broke the RIFE command line.

Improved

• AI temp-disk estimate now scales with the source resolution and is checked against free space before extraction starts.
• Exact fractional frame rate (e.g. 24000/1001) via ffprobe instead of the rounded "23.98" — removes a duplicated frame every ~3 minutes in AI mode. setup.ps1 now installs ffprobe.exe next to ffmpeg.exe (existing installs: run setup.ps1 once more; ~190 MB one-time download).
• Progress file is read as a tail instead of re-reading the whole growing file every 500 ms.
• MP4 + HEVC output is tagged hvc1 (QuickTime/Apple compatibility).
• Missing custom output folder is logged instead of silently falling back; setup.ps1 cleans its TEMP folder.

Upgrade

One-line installer or git pull, then run setup.ps1 once to get ffprobe.exe. Settings are untouched.

Aniflow 1.3

Multi-GPU fix and quality-of-life release.

Fixed

• On laptops with an integrated + discrete GPU, the shader chain, AI upscaling and RIFE all ran on the integrated GPU (device 0) while the discrete card idled — up to 10x slower encodes. Aniflow now detects the Vulkan device list at startup and picks the discrete GPU automatically; the GPU field in Settings (0 = auto) overrides it everywhere, and the detected devices are listed right under the field.
• RIFE jobs no longer break when the app is installed under a path containing special characters (e.g. the %LOCALAPPDATA% one-line install with an unusual username) — every path on the internal command line now travels via environment variables.
• Long AI jobs no longer slow the UI down: progress counting probes only new frames and stderr is read incrementally instead of re-reading a multi-megabyte file twice a second; Real-ESRGAN's percent spam is filtered out of the log.

Added

• In-app update check: on startup Aniflow quietly asks GitHub for the latest release and prints a log line when a newer version exists. No popups, silent when offline.
• The job log now shows which GPU was selected on multi-GPU systems; -SelfTest prints the full device list.

Aniflow 1.2

RIFE now works out of the box: setup.ps1 installs a self-contained portable VapourSynth (embedded Python 3.12 + VapourSynth R79) into the app folder - no system Python, no admin rights. An existing system-wide VapourSynth is still used if found. The one-line installer picks this up automatically.

Aniflow 1.1

Bug-fix and usability release.

Fixed

• File and folder names containing brackets no longer break file detection, temp cleanup or the temp-folder setting (all path checks are literal now; temp dirs are deleted with a wildcard-safe native call).
• Identically named sources no longer silently overwrite each other's output - collisions get a _2/_3 suffix with a log note.
• Container=mp4: Preview works again, bitmap subtitles (PGS/VobSub) are skipped with a note instead of failing the whole encode, incompatible audio falls back to AAC, Opus gets the required experimental flag.
• ffmpeg download in setup.ps1 works again (BtbN removed the fixed asset name; the URL is now resolved dynamically).
• Settings are locked while a job is running; error paths no longer leave the UI stuck busy; closing the window mid-AI-job cleans up temp frames.

Improved

• One-line, git-free install: irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DailyDana/Aniflow/main/install.ps1 | iex
• AI mode: input frames are deleted before the encode phase (roughly halves peak disk use); progress counting no longer stutters the UI on long jobs.

VapourSynth dependencies

BestSource + RIFE ncnn Vulkan plugin + v4.6 model, downloaded by setup.ps1.