NiceScaler Changelog

What's new in NiceScaler 3.0

Oct 17, 2022
  • NEW:
  • NiceScaler now will preserve original video audio and will apply it to upscaled video
  • output upscaled image will be saved in .png to boost video and image quality
  • IMPROVEMENTS / BUGFIX:
  • big performance improvements when using GPU on Windows 11 22H2 ~50%
  • updated core libraries

New in NiceScaler 2.3.0 (Aug 16, 2022)

  • UI:
  • New GUI in line with windows 11 UI
  • Redesigned buttons
  • New CLEAR button to clean the given image or video
  • IMPROVEMENTS / BUGFIX:
  • Redesigned how the app interact with images and video when upscaling (fix the bug that sometimes when upscaling multiple times, the app reported the old upscaling job)
  • The app will use image and video in .jpg instead of .png (boosting speed and space required by ~10%)
  • Refactored code for redability and speed improvements
  • Updated all libraries

New in NiceScaler 1.3.0 (Mar 27, 2022)

  • New feature:
  • GPU OpenCL backend (to use GPU horsepower to upscale)
  • support for more images and video file types
  • Improvements:
  • updated Python (3.7.9 -> 3.9.10)
  • bugfix in AI model creation (speed boost ~10% with all models)
  • deleted EDSR model (lighter .exe 110Mb -> 70Mb)
  • general code cleanup
  • UX:
  • deleted EDSR model button
  • new colors for left bar
  • new button to select OpenCL backend
  • removed AI models info under buttons
  • removed NiceScaler icon
  • added Github button
  • drag&drop space cleaning

New in NiceScaler 1.2.0 (Mar 22, 2022)

  • New:
  • Video upscaling (one video)
  • Video dropped shows as a list of information: fps, filesize, resolution, etc.
  • Support for mp4, webm, gif, mkv, flv, avi, mov videos
  • New buttons to choose upscale factor (x2 & x4)
  • UX/UI changes:
  • Font changed to Calibri
  • Setted default AI model to FSRCNN
  • Setted default upscale factor to x2
  • Changed buttons color for a better UX
  • Added filesize in image description (when drop one image)
  • Bugfix:
  • Fixed error when dropping files when the filepath contains dots '.'
  • General bugfix & code cleaning