Partial FMV upscale set using ESRGAN with doubled framerate
They were made by ripping the original Smacker videos to a set of images, which were each run through alsa64's dedither model for ESRGAN. These were then upscaled using the box model by buildist. They were then loaded into Avisynth where interframe blending was used to lessen the artifacts of the upscale, and then had its framerate upconverted to 30fps. Audio has been taken from the AVI files supplied with the original game.
There is some instability in certain shots due to the framerate upconversion. This is also the reason for only half of the game's FMVs being included as the framerate interpolation script has major problems with them. But this is the price of 30fps without double imaging.
This can be used with Fresh Supply by replacing the files in movie subfolder.
OGV files are currently not supported by BloodGDX or NBlood, although I've been told OGV support is planned for NBlood
Slide-over comparison (versus Smacker original) Imgsli.com
the cutscenes absolutely deserve a nice HDing
Great stuff my friend!
Any Chance of an upscaled FMV set for NBlood?
When NBlood gets support for a modern-ish codec. While high res Smacker videos are possible, they just end up too large and they take forever to encode.
Is this getting an update in the near future?