Any luck Deinterlacing etc on M Series computers?
 

I've had great success using AVSpmod, Avisynth+ etc. thanks to this forum converting VHS to 60 fps upscaled video. A huge thanks to everyone here for that. My question now is this, has anone used higher powered M series mac hardware to accomplish the same results? I've been using a 14 year old PC that runs solid, but I've left the PC arena for the Mac and dont think I'm going to build a modern PC. I've been running various flavors of windows in various virtual machine and all the common software ive used has benefitted from the higher end hardware... except the AVS scripts with AVI synth+ dll's through VirtualDub that work so fine on the PC. I do get it to run the same through the virtual machine but with speeds no greater than I get on the old PC. I would think there has to be s substantial speed increase with the larger number of cores and GPU power. Has anyone gone there successfully? Are there alternatives to run even command line on MacOS? Also don't mention Hybrid, works fine still just as slow.

I'd love to hear any thoughts on this. (Also good to be back on the Forum)

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Most likely an issue with the virtualization that need to convert from the ARM architecture to X86 and doesn't have native access to your GPU.

AviSynth+ also has a mac ARM version https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviSynth-Plus
but I don't know if it has ARM versions of all plugins you use

You could also try vapourSynth, that should work with Hybrid, but using the native vapourSynth, instead of the emulated version as it does with AviSynth.
It does need some manual install, see https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=175522

and you need to convert your aviSynth scripts to it.

QTGMC works fine for me on my Linux machine through the Hyprid interface.

I personally haven't been able to get Hybrid to work on an M1/M2 Mac, some of that might be partially because the app hasn't been updated in a while and MacOS has likely changed some since what I believe was a 2022 release most recently. Other people say theirs works, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can't hurt to try Hybrid on your machine and see if happens to work though.

The app itself runs, it just fails when you try to start a job using QTGMC as part of the processing.

you do have VapourSynth installed too? (I didn't get AviSynth working with it,but VapourSynth did) and I got some error message what was wrong when it didn't work (missing plugins, and there were some library clashes with the libraries delivered with Hybrid and the ones on my system)

I haven’t tried vaporsynth

I’m running Sequioa 15.4 on M4 and I got it to work fine.

That’s good to hear. Respectable speeds? I did get abiding+ to run on a vim it was just Sloooowwwe

I was able to get around 185 frames per second, so a 5.5 minute segment took less than two minutes. I will say, it caused the extra fans on the computer to turn on for only the second time since I purchased it.

I retried it a couple times, and in one case I was able to get it to work, but then a few days later, I tried what I though was roughly the same kind of conversion and it failed right away at making a "temporary directory" or something. So no idea what I did differently between the two attempts, but both were on the same computer, so not sure. That has kind of been my general experience with hybrid on Mac. Works occasionally, but often doesn't. I've searched various threads and the potential fixes generally haven't worked. The issue is (or at least was) that Selur doesn't have an M series Mac to test his software. Though could be his would work fine since others have no issues.

When it tells you it failed to create a temp directory, would be nice if it said "why" it failed, not just that it failed. Could be lack of permissions, no idea.