Usage(Instructions)

Installing and Setting Up Anime4K for Linux-based Distributions (and other Unix-like OS)

    1.  Install mpv from repositories of your distribution, some of the common ones are mentioned here

  Fedora Silverblue

    1.  Install the RPM-Fusion "free" repository, if not already installed, paste in the command belowsudo rpm-ostree install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

    2.  Reboot and install mpv

    3.  Reboot and continue to step 2

  Fedora
    sudo dnf install mpv

  Ubuntu and Derivatives
    sudo apt install mpv

  Arch and Derivatives
    sudo pacman -S mpv

  Gentoo (Add USE Flags as mentioned here
⟨https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mpv#USE_flags⟩)
    sudo emerge --ask media-video/mpv`

    •   Note: make sure to install a version of ⟨https://mpv.io/⟩ that was released after June 2021, older versions might not work ⟨https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/issues/134⟩.

    1.  Clone the repo using git clone https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K.git, or download the template files and extract them.

        •   Optimized shaders for lower-end GPU:
            (Eg. GTX 980, GTX 1060, RX 570)

            •   Download the template files here ⟨https://github.com/Tama47/Anime4K/releases/download/v4.0.1/GLSL_Mac_Linux_Low-end.zip⟩.

            •   Or click here to install manually. Copy & Paste the code from input.conf and mpv.conf in your input.conf and mpv.conf file. Then download and extract the shaders from releases and put them in the shaders folder.

        •   Optimized shaders for higher-end GPU:
            (Eg. GTX 1080, RTX 2070, RTX 3060, RX 590, Vega 56, 5700XT, 6600XT)

            •   Download the template files here ⟨https://github.com/Tama47/Anime4K/releases/download/v4.0.1/GLSL_Mac_Linux_High-end.zip⟩.

            •   Or click here to install manually. Copy & Paste the code from input.conf and mpv.conf in your input.conf and mpv.conf file. Then download and extract the shaders from releases and put them in the shaders folder.

    2.  Navigate to ~/.config/mpv and move the input.conf, mpv.conf and the shaders folder into the mpv directory. mv path/to/stuff ~/.config/mpv

Quick Usage Instructions

    1.  Anime4K has 3 major modes: A, B, and C. Each mode is optimized for a different class of anime degradations.

        •   Mode A is automatically enabled, if you use our template (this can be change in mpv.conf).

    2.  To enable each mode manually:

        •   Press CTRL+1 to enable Mode A (Optimized for 1080p Anime).

        •   Press CTRL+2 to enable Mode B (Optimized for 720p Anime).

        •   Press CTRL+3 to enable Mode C (Optimized for 480p Anime).

        •   Press CTRL+0 to clear all shaders (Disable Anime4K).

    3.  For more explanations and customization options, see the Advanced Usage Instructions ⟨GLSL_Instructions_Advanced.md#advanced-usage-instructions-glsl--mpv-v4x⟩.