Anime4K Issues

[Jokerss2]

Hi guys!

When enabling the Anime4K shader, the stats show “(unknown shader)”. Also, with any Anime4K type, lines start to exhibit a stair-stepping effect, similar to games with poor antialiasing, appearing as jagged edges on objects, especially noticeable on diagonal lines and edges (clothing and characters).

Does anyone know how to fix this? I'd be very grateful in advance!

[kasper93]

When enabling the Anime4K shader, the stats show “(unknown shader)”.

This is not harmful.
#9411
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo/-/issues/166

Also, with any Anime4K type, lines start to exhibit a stair-stepping effect, similar to games with poor antialiasing, appearing as jagged edges on objects, especially noticeable on diagonal lines and edges (clothing and characters).

Quality of Anime4K processing should be discussed in their repository.

[Jokerss2]

Also, if you know how to prevent other shaders from being disabled when cleaning the Anime4K shader, I would be very grateful if you could tell me how. I'm also struggling lately with the lack of a function to disable specific shaders without affecting the ones I need

[hooke007]

This is not harmful.

please let me know what needs to be done.

Do nothing.

if you know how to prevent other shaders from being disabled

WHEN is hardcoded in some shaders. Which is expected by design. (i.e. https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/blob/7684e9586f8dcc738af08a1cdceb024cc184f426/glsl/Upscale/Anime4K_Upscale_CNN_x2_L.glsl#L31 )

I'm also struggling lately with the lack of a function to disable specific shaders

Doesn't change-list work for you?

without affecting the ones I need

What does the affect mean?

[Jokerss2]

Affecting = Influence. Regarding change-list, I have this command in input.conf:
F2 change-list glsl-shaders clr "".

However, it disables all active shaders, and I want it to disable only "Anime4K"

[hooke007]

If you were tallking about removing all the anime4k family shaders in the list by one click. I use a workaround for this case.

[a4k-del]
 glsl-shaders-del = "~~/shaders/Anime4k_xxxx.glsl"
 glsl-shaders-del = "~~/shaders/Anime4k_xxxx2.glsl"
 glsl-shaders-del = "~~/shaders/Anime4k_xxxx3.glsl"
 glsl-shaders-del = "~~/shaders/Anime4k_xxxx4.glsl"

And run apply-profile a4k-del when necessary. But it doesn't work on the git master because #16573 . It has to be used on the previous versions.

[Jokerss2]

Too bad. I'm using the latest mpv updates. I hope the build author will bring this feature back soon. Thanks for introducing me to it. When it works, it will be very useful

[Jokerss2]

Even without Anime4K, there's poor anti-aliasing on object and character lines (clothing, etc.), especially noticeable during camera movement, causing "shimmering" edges.

Any idea what might be causing this?

My video rendering settings:

vo=gpu-next
gpu-api=vulkan
gpu-context=winvk
hwdec=auto-copy
vulkan-async-compute=yes
vulkan-async-transfer=yes
vulkan-queue-count=1
vd-lavc-dr=yes
framedrop=no

msg-level=ffmpeg=error,cplayer=warn,auto_profiles=warn,autoload=warn,autocrop=warn
reset-on-next-file=audio-delay,mute,pause,speed,sub-delay,video-aspect-override,video-pan-x,video-pan-y,video-rotate,video-zoom,volume

[na-na-hi]

Also, with any Anime4K type, lines start to exhibit a stair-stepping effect, similar to games with poor antialiasing, appearing as jagged edges on objects, especially noticeable on diagonal lines and edges (clothing and characters).

Known issue with gpu-next: #9505

[kasper93]

Also, with any Anime4K type, lines start to exhibit a stair-stepping effect, similar to games with poor antialiasing, appearing as jagged edges on objects, especially noticeable on diagonal lines and edges (clothing and characters).

Known issue with gpu-next: #9505

Do you know why this happens?