SKV89's SEEDVR2 GUI

[skv89]

First you need to install ComfyUI and the SEEDVR2 nodes in ComfyUI per this github. Afterwards, no need to setup a workflow. You can jump straight to this GUI. Please note I do not intend to make a one-click all-in-one GUI like naxci is making. These are made for my own use but maybe others might find this useful as it reduces the need to figure out how to setup ComfyUI workflows, enable the very important Chunk feature to render long videos with temporal consistency between chunks. There is also built-in pre-processing options to downscale, which is mandatory for SEEDVR2 rendering because you need to do at least 2x upscale for stable picture. You can denoise and do color/brightness tuning with preview in the pre-processing tab. On top of that I ran this for 3 weeks straight with my computer unattended with NO CRASH!!! I was never able to get my comfyUI running SEEDVR2 for more than 2 days without some kind of error or crashing. Also even if it does crash or OOM, there are error recovery/resume features in this GUI that does not exist if you run SEEDVR2 in ComfyUI so you won't have to worry about losing many hours of processing.

Please make sure you click the buttons circled in red which significantly reduces system ram usage to prevent OOM errors. This is important when using Chunk function. You want to set the chunk size as large as your ram can handle for max speed and quality.

SeedVR2_CLI_GUI_v1_26_Public_Package.zip

You can run the file by double clicking on any one of these 3 files. They open the exact same GUI.
Start_SeedVR2_CLI_GUI_v1_24.bat
Start_SeedVR2_CLI_GUI_v1_24_NoConsole.vbs
SeedVR2_CLI_GUI_v1_24.pyw

Download FFMPEG and copy the 3 executable files to .\tools\ffmpeg\bin

[war4peace]

Interesting.
I am building a relatively similar application (as far as video upscale functionality goes).

I have many questions, here's a few:

1. Why still use ComfyUI? SeedVR can be run in-process, you can bypass ComfyUI completely.
2. Why are you using "Resolution" 1080p but no max_resolution? Wouldn't this generate strange resolutions if source is non-standard (e.g. portrait videos)?
3. Which batch_size are you using on the Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 for upscaling to 1440p or 4K?
4. Are you monitoring GPU telemetry (real time VRAM usage, peak VRAM, working set VRAM usage)?

[skv89]

Interesting. I am building a relatively similar application (as far as video upscale functionality goes).

I have many questions, here's a few:

1. Why still use ComfyUI? SeedVR can be run in-process, you can bypass ComfyUI completely.
2. Why are you using "Resolution" 1080p but no max_resolution? Wouldn't this generate strange resolutions if source is non-standard (e.g. portrait videos)?
3. Which batch_size are you using on the Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 for upscaling to 1440p or 4K?
4. Are you monitoring GPU telemetry (real time VRAM usage, peak VRAM, working set VRAM usage)?

1. I originally created this app because ComfyUI started using more vram than in prior versions and I kept getting oom issues. This app was meant for my personal use as my intent was not to create a Stand-alone app, which is what naxci is doing.
2. I never noticed any issues with or without setting a max_resolution. You can set a max_resolution cap if you prefer. It could prevent vram spikes but again I haven't noticed a difference.
3. I haven't done 1440p much other than testing small files which I have done at a batch of 101. You might have to start out between 90-100 range and see what the vram usage is in the monitor tab of my app then you can gradually increase the range to as much as your RTX 6000 can handle. But I would not exceed 85gb vram incase you need to use your computer for other tasks. I never tried 4k because it would require very small batch sizes and would also require enabling vae tiling. Both decreases speed and quality tremendously. I rather upscale to 1440p and then use Topaz Iris Medium to upscale to 4k. You would need at least 128gb vram to upscale to 4k efficiently.
4. Yes all of that is monitored in the "Monitor / Log" tab.

For determining the optimal batch size and chunk size to use (larger = faster and better quality), you can use the section I circled in red. Then you can copy the parameters into your own app.

One more thing, it is ok to have the sys ram exceed maximum by a little as it will just use the pagefile and your computer just bogs down while ffmpeg is writing. However, exceed too much and you will get OOM error.

[war4peace]

Thank you.

For Big-VRAM cards, my application uses torch.compile, avoids tiling and loads DiT and VAE resident in VRAM to avoid data being moved from VRAM to RAM and back (thrashing).

Upscaling to 1440p on a Blackwell works well with batch_size 69, temporal_overlap 6. The application reports 7.3s/frame. Of course, this somewhat depends on target machine. Mine are remote pods using Linux and no ComfyUI (upscaling takes place in-process), so I'm not worried about maxing VRAM usage.

Thanks again, I'll post an update as soon as current run ends.

[skv89]

I get close to 0.8 fps upscaling to 1440p and 1.5 fps upscaling to 1080p with the optimum settings

[HKunz1969]

@war4peace

May I ask what kind of hardware the remote pods use?

[war4peace]

Of course. My application uses RunPod.com, and hardware availability varies, you can spin up pods from RTX 2000 ADA, all the way to the mighty B300 or the AMD MI300X.
Not all GPU types are available in all data centers, and sometimes a certain pod is „broken” (although it's a pretty rare occurrence).

URL: https://www.runpod.io/pricing

[skv89]

https://github.com/skv89/SeedVR2-ComfyUI-GUI
Finally I feel my SEEDVR2 ComfyUI GUI is ready for release on Github. It now has major improvements and new features. Too many to list but the most important new feature is that you can use this app to verify, install, upgrade, downgrade, and switch dependencies in your actual ComfyUI environment, which is an extremely daunting task for users with limited computer background. Many new users give up after installing ComfyUI and loading SEEDVR2 but could not figure out how to setup the dependencies or setting up a working workflow. Now all you have to do is install ComfyUI, install SEEDVR2 in the ComfyUI manager, and let this app handle the rest. You can get SEEDVR2 dependencies installed with one click instead of spending hours or days figuring how to type command lines in Powershell, and you don't need to figure out how to setup the workflow as you can just let the app figure it out. You can even use this app solely to help you easily install or update ComfyUI dependencies and not use SEEDVR2.