mpv-anime-build

🎬 MPV Anime Build v5.6

The Cross-Platform Audio Switching & Dialogue Search Update: cross-platform display-to-device audio mapping, human-readable display identification, searchable subtitle dialogue browser, refined status overlays, and balanced interface fonts.

An advanced, context-aware MPV configuration featuring AI upscaling, dynamic power management, universal HDR support, and intelligent audio processing.

📱 Android Support Available

The MPV Anime Build is also available for Android (mpvEX / Aniyomi)!

• Features: Gesture Controls, Smart Auto-Detection, and Optimized Shaders for mobile.
• Download: Switch to the Android Branch to get the mobile-specific files.

Note for HDR Users: Auto (Detected) follows active Windows HDR displays and KDE Plasma's Linux HDR state. Other Linux compositors use mpv's native colorspace negotiation. HDR Display (Passthrough) remains available as a manual override when a display driver does not expose its HDR state correctly.

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🚀 What's New in (v4.0 - v5.6)

• 🧩 FSR Shader Swapper Options (v5.6): Added FSR/FSRCNNX variant choices to the Anime Build shader swapper so alternate reconstruction and scaling profiles can be selected from the customized UOSC menus.

• 🌈 HDR Toys Pipeline Stability (v5.6): Fixed HDR Toys shader-pipeline race behavior and documented the HDR Toys button, menu flow, and release packaging requirements for future agent work.

• 💬 Reliable UOSC Subtitle Search (v5.6): Updated the UOSC subtitle downloader to prefer text-query searches when a query or suggestion exists, avoiding OpenSubtitles moviehash request resets while preserving hash lookup when no query is available.

• 📚 UOSC Agent Documentation (v5.6): Marked scripts/uosc/lib/menus.lua as a customized/high-risk UOSC file alongside scripts/uosc/main.lua so future upstream ports preserve Anime Build menu and subtitle-search behavior.

• HDR Toys UI (v5.5): Integrated interactive HDR Toys sub-menu within the Audio & HDR UOSC control section. Enables advanced real-time gamut (Bottosson) and tone-mapping (Astra) adjustments with persistent configuration state.

• Unified 2-Pass Sharpening (v5.5): Upgraded all resolution-specific and generic Adaptive Sharpen shaders to the purist 2-pass DX11 framework. Provides significant edge anti-ringing improvements relying on explicitly calibrated L_overshoot and D_overshoot structures.

• 🔊 Cross-Platform Audio Device Switching (v5.4): Configurable display-to-device audio mappings in script-opts/auto_audio_device.conf supporting Linux, Windows, and macOS. Displays without a mapping safely preserve the active audio device by default.

• 🖥️ Human-Readable Display Names (v5.4): Decodes Linux DRM EDID directly in Lua and resolves Windows display identifiers asynchronously to show readable monitor models (e.g., DP-1 (MSI G241)) in logs and console diagnostics.

• 🔎 Searchable Subtitle Lines (v5.4): Added mpv-subtitle-lines for browsing and seeking to dialogue in the active primary or secondary subtitle track. The contextual Subtitle Lines UOSC button appears immediately next to the subtitle button; CTRL+f and CTRL+F provide keyboard access.

• 📊 Refined Status Overlays & Unified OSD Fonts (v5.4): Context-aware shader reporting in CTRL+i, expanded glass overlay dimensions, unified bundled Microsoft Sans Serif OSD font across all platforms, and balanced font sizing across all overlays.

• 🎨 Content-Aware Debanding Rebalance (v5.4): Anime profile debanding tuned to 40/20/6 for gradient cleanup while preserving fine art textures. Low-End and 8K profiles explicitly keep debanding disabled for performance.

• 🔌 External Player, IPC & SVP Coexistence (v5.3): MediaFlick and other controllers retain ownership of their IPC endpoint while Unix systems expose a discoverable per-process alias for SVP and related integrations. Standalone Windows and Linux MPV sessions retain their normal named-pipe/socket behavior.

• ⚙️ Update-Safe Personal MPV Config (v5.3): One mpv-<custom-name>.conf file can override normal options after the shipped mpv.conf, keeping personal choices separate from build updates while safely rejecting ambiguous multiple override files.

• 💬 Commentary-Safe Subtitle Fallbacks (v5.3): Automatic selection completely skips commentary subtitles, preserves clean-track priority, and falls back to a complete SDH or hearing-impaired track when no usable clean subtitle exists—even without preferred-language metadata.

• 🎨 Contrast-Separated Smart Skip Colors (v5.3): Intro and PV colors are swapped across Skip Intro and the UOSC timeline so adjacent chapters remain distinct: OP green, ED blue, PV orange, and Intro magenta.

• 🛡️ Protected Customized UOSC (v5.3): Removed UOSC's upstream self-updater so it cannot overwrite the Anime Build's customized main.lua. A manual System → Check for Updates opens the exact latest Anime Build release, while automatic checks never launch a browser.

• 🔍 Automated VirusTotal Reports (v5.3): Published ZIP assets receive SHA-256-specific VirusTotal results in their release descriptions, with support for large archives and historical release backfills.

• 🎬 Restored Live-Action Path Override (v5.2): Explicit Live Action, Live-Action, liveaction, drama, and real person path/title signals once again take priority over Anime folder and Japanese-audio signals while Anime Mode is set to Auto.

• 🖼️ Safer Thumbfast Decoding (v5.2): Thumbnail generation now explicitly uses software decoding by default, matching Thumbfast's built-in safe fallback and avoiding hardware-decoder instability in the helper process.

• 🌐 English-Only Stream Subtitles (v5.2): yt-dlp automatic and authored subtitle requests are limited to English and original-English tracks; unintended Telugu language requests were removed.

• 🎨 Correct Smart Skip Documentation (v5.2): Website image descriptions and chapter-timeline documentation were corrected to match the palette used in that release: OP green, ED blue, PV magenta, and Intro orange.

• 🔋 Durable Eco Profile Ownership (v5.1): Power Saving now remains authoritative across file loads, metadata changes, and saved UOSC setting updates. User preferences are preserved for normal playback and restored deterministically when Eco mode ends.

• 💬 Preferred-Language SDH Fallback (v5.1): When no clean preferred-language subtitle exists, the selector now chooses a preferred-language SDH or hearing-impaired track before an unrelated clean language, while still rejecting forced and signs-only tracks.

• 🌈 Cross-Platform HDR Detection (v5.0): Windows uses the DisplayConfig API with a WMI compatibility fallback, KDE Plasma uses KScreen, and other Linux compositors defer safely to mpv's native colorspace negotiation. Windows and Linux detection paths remain strictly isolated.

• 💾 Durable User Overrides (v5.0): UOSC Controls and HDR choices are remembered in untracked user-<custom-name>.conf files, loaded alphabetically and reapplied after profile evaluation so build updates do not overwrite personal settings.

• 🧩 Community-Reported Reliability Fixes (v5.0): Fixed disabled track-selector overrides, wireless peripheral batteries forcing Linux desktops into Eco mode, and nil-sensitive profile conditions during startup.

• 🎨 Clear Anime FSRCNNX Names (v5.0): Renamed the two easily-confused Anime FSRCNNX shaders to explicit anime_mild and anime_aggressive filenames, with automatic migration of saved legacy paths.

• 🔋 Cross-Platform Power Guard (v4.9): Completely reworked power_manager.lua for automatic Windows and Linux support. Windows uses modern PowerShell/CIM battery monitoring, while Linux reads the native system power-supply interface without requiring PowerShell or manual platform-specific edits.

• 🖥️ Smart Desktop/Laptop Detection (v4.9): Battery-equipped laptops retain automatic Eco switching on battery and smart restoration on AC power. Desktop systems cleanly use Manual Toggle Only mode without generating failed-subprocess warnings.

• 🎞️ Safe Decoder Restoration (v4.9): Power Guard now remembers and restores the active hardware decoder instead of forcing a platform-specific value. This preserves D3D11VA on Windows and NVDEC, VA-API, Vulkan, or SVP copy-back decoding on Linux.

• ✨ Smoother High-Quality Scaling (v4.9): Enabled MPV's built-in high-quality rendering foundation and changed Anime native scaling from ewa_lanczossharp to spline64 for smoother edges, reduced ringing, and more consistent rendering.

• 📺 FHD-Native Profile Clarity (v4.9): Renamed the custom [High-Quality] profile to [FHD-Native] and synchronized controller state detection, profile evaluation, menus, and OSD labels to distinguish it from MPV's built-in high-quality profile.

• 📸 Video-Only Screenshots (v4.9): Added F6 for clean video-frame screenshots alongside the existing F5 window screenshot shortcut.

• 🧩 Optimized Anime Profile Controller & Main UI Logic (v4.8): Optimized anime_profile_controller.lua and main.lua to fix minor bugs and reduce unnecessary processing while preserving the existing profile system and menu synchronization.

• 📂 Dedicated UOSC Open File Button (v4.8): Added an Open File button directly to the UOSC controls bar. It opens UOSC's file-selection menu for selecting video and audio files without leaving the player.

• 🖼️ Image Filtering in Open File Menu (v4.8): The UOSC file browser can now be configured with load_types=video,audio, show_hidden_files=no, and an empty image_types value so poster/backdrop image assets are not shown alongside playable media.

• 🎛️ Refined UOSC Behaviors (v4.8): Adjusted several UOSC controls and menu behaviors for a cleaner, more consistent MPV Anime Build experience.

• 🎵 Track Selector Fixes & Refinements (v4.8): Updated track-selector.lua with the fixes and behavior changes developed for v4.8, improving track-selection reliability while retaining the manual-selection/override workflow.

• 🎨 Resolution-Tuned Adaptive Sharpen & Anime Line-Thinner (v4.7): Adjusted sharpening and line-thinner strengths across resolution tiers for smoother, more soothing edges on both Anime and Live-Action content while retaining background and subject detail.

• 📥 Working Stream Downloads (v4.7): Added the mpv-youtube-download script and connected it to the UOSC Download button. Stream downloads are saved to ~/ytdl by default and can be redirected through youtube-download.conf.

• 🪟 Windows CMD Flash Fix (v4.7): Updated mpvSockets.lua to prevent command-window flashes on Windows when socket commands are issued.

• 🌊 Expanded Audio-Only Visualizers (v4.7): Added new visualizer styles to the Audio-Only profile for more visual variety during music playback.

• 🎛️ UOSC 5.13.0 (v4.7): Updated UOSC to the latest 5.13.0 release while retaining the MPV Anime Build's custom controls, menus, and integrations.

• 🌈 Color-Coded Chapter Timeline (v4.7): UOSC highlights detected chapter ranges using the same colors as Skip Intro. The current displayed palette is OP #00FF00, ED #0080FF, PV #FF9900, and Intro #FF00FF, with transparent timeline colors. (PV and Intro used the opposite colors in the original v4.7 palette and were swapped in v5.3 for stronger contrast between neighboring chapter ranges.)

• 💾 Track Selector Resume Manual Override (v4.7): Manual audio/subtitle overrides are persisted per video. When resumed in a later MPV session, the matching override is restored and then remains active for the rest of that session/playlist, including next/previous files.

• 📜 Native Watch History & Progress Bars (v4.5): Tracks up to 50 recent files with visual progress blocks, 95% watched thresholds, greyed-out completed entries, and a dedicated control bar button.

• 🗡️ Anime Line-Thinner Suite & Context Locks (v4.5): Resolution-aware line-thinning shaders mapped into FSRCNNX with a persistent menu toggle (Ctrl+j) and safety lockdown checks.

• ✨ Refined Adaptive Sharpening (v4.5): Balanced strength curves across SD, HD, FHD, and 4K tiers for pristine edge fidelity.

• ⚡ ArtCNN Performance Optimizations (v4.4): Upgraded the Ani4Kv2 and AniSD shader chains to use highly optimized fragment iterations (_i2 / _i4) instead of heavy compute models, entirely eliminating frame drops during real-time playback.

• 🔒 Strict Fidelity Locks & UI Sync (v4.4): Anime4K profiles are now strictly locked out while Fidelity Mode is active, complete with custom OSD warnings. UOSC menus have also been reorganized and dual-synced for a cleaner right-click experience.

• 🎵 Audio-Only Smart Toggle & Fix (v4.3): Added a new UOSC menu toggle to enable (Auto) or completely bypass (Disable) the audio-only battery-saving profile. Fixed a major race condition that incorrectly applied audio-profiles to video files on systems without discrete GPUs.

• Status Overlay Overhaul (v4.3): The status view now features structured, color-coded layouts for audio/video filters and shaders. Implemented smart text wrapping and native table parsing to eliminate string artifacts and ensure perfect readability on all screen resolutions. Press 'k' for A/V Filter and Shaders Info

• ✨ Anime4K Ultra Tier (v4.2): Integrated the unified Anime4K-Ultra shaders by Th-Underscore. The quality setting is now a 3-tier system (Fast, HQ, Ultra), bringing superior line thinning, pre-sharpen blur-pulls, and de-aliasing to the pipeline.

• 🔤 Dynamic UI Labels (v4.2): The UOSC Anime4K Profiles menu now dynamically updates its descriptions based on the active quality tier, mapping specific Th-Underscore files to the correct modes.

• 🧠 Resolution-Aware Engine Persistence (v4.1): The toggle choice between Anime Fidelity (FSRCNNX) and Performance (Anime4K) is now tracked and remembered independently per resolution tier. Mix and match purist edge refinement for 1080p content while running aggressive upscaling on 720p content completely automatically.

• 💻 ArtCNN Compute Engine Optimizations (v4.1): Next-gen Ani4Kv2 and AniSD rendering engines now leverage dynamic compute profiles. Fast Quality utilizes general loops, while HQ Quality triggers parallel hardware Compute pipelines (*_CMP.glsl) to maximize your graphics card's hardware capabilities.

• 📺 Advanced 3-Way HDR Matrix Switch (v4.0): Overhauled the display engine output to route through an explicit 3-way layout loop: Auto, HDR Display (Passthrough), and SDR Display (Tone-Mapping).

• 🔤 Interactive Subtitle Styling (v4.0): Fine-tune your subtitle fonts, colors, and borders directly from the new Subtitles section in the UOSC Controls Menu.

• 🔊 Screen-Wide Scroll Volume Engine (v4.0): Adjust sound balances comfortably by using your mouse scroll wheel anywhere across the video output field, syncing natively with the custom smoked glass volume popups.

• ⌨️ New ArtCNN Control Interfacing (v4.0): Quick-swap layout styles on the fly using standard keyboard overrides (CTRL+7 for Ani4Kv2 and CTRL+8 for AniSD).

• ⚡ NVIDIA Decoding Priority (v4.0): The Windows core engine now prioritizes nvdec hardware decoding, ensuring maximum performance and lower power draw for RTX/GTX users.

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🚀 What's New (v3.0 - v3.2)

• 🧠 Resolution-Aware Anime4K (v3.2): Anime4K is no longer a single global toggle. The build now remembers your precise Quality ("fast" vs "hq") and Mode (A, B, C, AA, BB, CA) preferences independently for each resolution tier (SD, HD, FHD, 2K, 4K, 8K), seamlessly swapping settings on the fly to match your content.
• 🎛️ Interactive Denoise Filter (v3.1): A dedicated Denoise (hqdn3d) control suite in the UOSC menu with independent Luma and Chroma adjustments. It features a Smart Hardware Fallback that safely manages your hwdec settings to prevent crashes when engaging CPU-based filters.
• 🌐 Smart Track Selector (v3.1): Intelligently handles missing metadata, prioritizing "Dialogue" or "Full" subtitle tracks over "Signs/Songs", and cleanly falls back to muxer defaults if your preferred language isn't found.
• 🎵 Audio-Only Profile (v3.0): Instantly drops GPU load to 0% for music playback. Automatically disables heavy video shaders/scalers while displaying embedded album art and dynamic visualizers.
• 🎚️ On-the-Fly Equalizer & PIP (v3.0): Fine-tune your audio frequencies directly from the UI, and seamlessly pop the video out into a floating Picture-in-Picture (PIP) window for multitasking.
• ⚡ 8K Optimized Mode (v3.0): Automatically detects massive 8K resolution files and bypasses heavy upscaling shaders to prevent GPU crashes and ensure buttery-smooth playback.
• 🌈 Ambient Crop Shader (v3.0): A highly immersive viewing mode that fills black bars with ambient glowing colors. (⚠️ Note for SVP Users: Use SVP's dedicated "Fill black bars" instead).
• ⚡ Core Performance Optimizations (v3.0): Refined underlying scripts for significantly faster state transitions and lower startup overhead.
• 🎨 Menu Overhaul (v3.0): The UOSC Glass UI has been completely reorganized with new intuitive submenus for PIP, Ambient, and Equalizer controls.

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🧠 Smart Intelligence & Automation

1. Universal Auto-Detection

The build automatically switches profiles (Anime vs Live Action) based on what you are watching.

• File/Folder Rules: If the path contains anime, it applies Anime shaders. If it contains live action, drama, real person, or lacks anime tags, it applies Live Action shaders.
• 3D/Donghua: Automatically recognizes keywords like donghua, 3d_anime, and cartoon.
• Streaming Detection: Works flawlessly on Web Streams (Stremio, Debrid, URLs) by automatically scanning audio tracks for Japanese language tags to trigger Anime Mode.

2. Power Guard (Battery Safety)

A cross-platform power manager designed for Windows and Linux laptops, portable systems, and desktops.

• Automatic Platform Detection: Uses modern PowerShell/CIM battery monitoring on Windows and the native system power-supply interface on Linux. No platform-specific script editing is required.
• Auto-Eco: Unplugging a laptop automatically disables high-end shaders (Anime4K/FSRCNNX), locks them out, and switches to the lightweight [Low-End] bilinear profile.
• Auto-Restore: Reconnecting AC power restores the smart video profile and the exact hardware decoder that was active before Eco mode.
• Desktop Mode: Systems without a battery automatically use Manual Toggle Only mode through Ctrl+P or the UOSC power menu.
• Decoder Safety: Preserves D3D11VA, NVDEC, VA-API, Vulkan, and SVP copy-back configurations instead of forcing an incompatible decoder.
• Note for SVP Users: Create a "Battery Profile" in SVP 4 Pro to disable frame interpolation when on battery to ensure total efficiency.

3. Adaptive Nvidia VSR (RTX AI Upscaling)

• Smart Ratio: Calculates the exact pixel ratio between your video and monitor to maximize quality without wasting GPU power (e.g., scales 720p to 4K at 3.0x, but leaves 1080p on a 1080p screen at 1.0x).
• Safety & Bit-Depth: Automatically selects p010 (10-bit) for HDR/Anime to prevent banding.

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🎨 The Video Pipeline (Visuals & Shaders)

Anime Mode: Stylized vs. Faithful

You have two distinct engines for watching Anime.

Mode	Engine	Best For	Philosophy
Performance (Default)	Anime4K	720p / Old Anime	"Make it look like 4K." Aggressive upscaling, artifact removal, and "painting" effect. Razor-sharp.
Fidelity (Purist)	FSRCNNX	1080p / Modern Anime	"Show exactly what the artist drew." Preserves original texture, line art, and film grain.

• SD Content: Applies FSRCNNX-16 (Anime Enhance) for deep reconstruction.
• HD/FHD Content: Applies FSRCNNX-8 (Line Art) for subtle edge refinement.

Live-Action Pipeline

Non-anime content uses a completely separate "Modern TV" adaptive processing path.

• SD (< 576p): Choose between NNEDI3 (Clean/Texture) or FSRCNNX (Sharp Mode).
• HD (720p-1080p): Choose between NNEDI3 (Geometry) or FSRCNNX (Detail/Sharp).
• 4K (2160p): Native 1:1 Pixel Mapping with subtle Adaptive Sharpening + Glaze. Bypasses all heavy upscalers.
• 8K (4320p) [v3.0]: Engages Hardware-Decoded optimized mode. Bypasses all post-processing.

Native Scalers Guide (Manual Overrides)

If you disable shaders (CTRL+g), MPV falls back to its high-quality native scaling configuration:

• spline64: The v4.9 default for Anime and native FHD processing. Produces smooth, stable edges with less aggressive ringing.
• ewa_lanczossharp: A sharper manual alternative when stronger edge definition is preferred.
• mitchell: A softer option that can help conceal compression artifacts and low-quality source detail.

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🎵 The Audio & HDR Engine

Professional Audio

• Audio-Only Mode [v3.0]: Instantly drops GPU load to 0% for music playback, showing embedded album art and dynamic visualizers.
• Spatial Audio: Uses HRTF-based virtual surround to simulate a 7.1 cinema experience on standard stereo headphones.
• Display-Aware Audio Devices: Configure Linux, Windows, or macOS display-to-device mappings in script-opts/auto_audio_device.conf. Linux and Windows console output includes the monitor product name alongside its connector/GDI identifier, unmapped displays preserve the current device by default, and CTRL+a toggles automatic switching.
• Night Mode: Applies Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) to lower explosions and boost whispers for late-night viewing.
• Passthrough/Bitstream: Send raw TrueHD/DTS-X to your AVR with a single click (A).

True HDR & Dolby Vision

Automatically detects your monitor's capabilities via Windows.

• Windows HDR ON: Activates the HDR Display output path. The selected metadata-aware tone-mapping curve remains active for HDR10+/Dolby Vision highlight handling.
• Windows HDR OFF: Switches to High-Quality Tone Mapping (Spline/BT.2390) for SDR monitors.
• Dolby Vision: Plays correctly on all devices, automatically falling back to the HDR10 Base Layer if your display lacks DV support (fixes purple/green screen errors).
• Calibration: Manually set Target Peak Brightness (e.g., 400 nits, 1000 nits) and Tone-Mapping algorithms via the menu.

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📺 UI & Smart Features

• Glass UI (UOSC): A modern, transparent "Smoked Glass" interface that doesn't block the video.
• Smart Skip Intro / Up Next: Interactive, context-aware cards.
  • 🟢 Green: Skip OP | 🔵 Blue: Skip ED | 🟣 Magenta: Skip Preview
  • Click to skip instantly. Pauses the timer if you pause the video.
• Neon Glass Stats Overlay (I): Real-time monitoring of active shaders, Input vs Output resolution, HDR status, and Audio logic.
• Master Persistence: The build remembers everything across restarts (Fidelity vs Performance preference, HD upscaler choice, Tone-mapping algorithm, etc.).

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🌊 Recommended Streaming Ecosystem

This build is designed to be the "Engine" for high-quality streaming apps.

App	Best For	Why?
Stremio	Movies, TV & Anime	The ultimate hub. Supports 4K HDR, Dolby Vision, and real-time torrent streaming.
Hayase / Shiru	Anime Only	Dedicated Anime clients with Anilist/MAL sync. Tracks progress automatically.

How to Set MPV as External Player:

• Stremio: Settings → Player → Enable "Play in external player".
• Hayase / Shiru: Settings → Player Settings → Select your mpv.exe.

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⌨️ Master Controls & Shortcuts

Shortcut	Function
K	Show Profile Info (Displays current Mode, Profile, and Active Shaders)
I	Show Tech Stats (Bitrate, Dropped Frames, Logic Status)
A	Audio Mode (Toggle between 7.1 Upmix and Passthrough/Bitstream)
H	HDR Mode (Manual Override: Force Passthrough vs Tone Mapping)
V	Nvidia VSR (Toggle RTX Video Super Resolution - Windows Only)
Q	Master Upscaler Toggle (SD/HD Logic Switch: NNEDI3 ↔ FSRCNNX)
CTRL + q	SD Only: Toggle Clean ↔ Texture mode (Requires NNEDI3).
CTRL + k	Toggle Adaptive Sharpen (ON/OFF).
CTRL + g	Master Shader Killswitch. Disables all AI processing for raw playback.
CTRL + p	Toggle Power Saving Mode manually.
F5 / F6	Window Screenshot / Clean Video-Frame Screenshot
y	Cycle Sub Video Data (None / Aspect / All) - Fixes subtitle scaling issues.
CTRL + f / CTRL + F	Browse Primary / Secondary Subtitle Lines and seek to a selected line.

Anime Pipeline Overrides

Shortcut	Mode	Description
CTRL + l	AUTO	Detects based on folder path & keywords (Default)
CTRL + ;	ON	Force anime shaders for all content
CTRL + '	OFF	Disable anime shaders completely
L	Anime4K Quality	Toggle Anime4K FAST ↔ HQ
CTRL + 1-6	Anime4K Modes	Cycle between Modes A, B, C, AA, BB, CA

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💻 System Requirements & Installation

Minimum (1080p Playback)

• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD RX 560 or better (2GB+ VRAM)
• CPU: Quad-core Intel/AMD CPU
• RAM: 8GB

Recommended (4K Upscaling + SVP)

• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 / AMD RX 6600 or better (6GB+ VRAM)
• CPU: Modern 6-core CPU (Ryzen 5 3600 / Intel i5-10400 or newer)
• RAM: 16GB

Installation

1. Install MPV: Download the latest 64-bit version of MPV (shinchiro builds recommended).
2. Install SVP 4 Pro (Optional): Ensure SVP is installed if you want motion interpolation.
3. Copy Files: Extract the contents of this build into your %APPDATA%/mpv/ folder (Windows) or ~/.config/mpv (Linux).
4. Fonts: Install Source Sans Pro (included) to ensure the Stats overlay renders correctly.

User overrides and remembered menu settings

Settings changed in UOSC → Controls are saved outside the tracked defaults, so updating the build does not reset them. The HDR display mode, target peak, and tone-mapping choice use the same override layer.

• User files must be named user-<custom-name>.conf; <custom-name> can be any non-empty name.
• If no user file exists, the first remembered change creates user-settings.conf.
• Multiple user files are loaded alphabetically. Later files override earlier files, and the last file is updated when a menu choice is saved.
• Built-in script defaults and mpv.conf remain the fallback when a setting has no user override.

Personal MPV configuration overrides

To override any normal MPV option without editing the build's tracked mpv.conf, create exactly one file named mpv-<custom-name>.conf beside mpv.conf. For example, mpv-personal.conf containing fullscreen=no overrides the build's fullscreen=yes default.

• The custom file is loaded after the shipped mpv.conf, so duplicate options in it take precedence.
• Only the settings you want to change need to be added; do not copy the complete shipped configuration.
• The filename works the same on Windows and Linux, and the file remains separate during build updates.
• If multiple mpv-*.conf files are present, none are loaded and MPV displays a warning. Keep exactly one active custom file.
• mpv-*.conf controls normal MPV options. The separate user-*.conf files above store remembered Anime Build menu settings.

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📸 Gallery, Visual Comparisons & Tech Verification

🔹 UI & Smart Features

Main Menu	Advanced Controls

OP Detected	ED Detected	Skipped

🔹 Anime Pipeline

Live Action Mode (Anime OFF)	Anime Mode (Anime4K ON)

Anime4K (Art Style)	Fidelity (Purist)

🔹 Live Action Pipeline

HD: NNEDI3 (Auto Default)	HD: FSRCNNX (Manual HQ)

SD: Clean Mode	SD: Texture Mode

🔹 Nvidia VSR (RTX AI Upscaling)

RTX VSR Active (Green OSD)

🔹 Shader Verification (Proof of Logic)

Anime Mode

Auto (Default)	Manual Off

Live Action (HD)

NNEDI3 Chain	FSRCNNX Chain

Live Action (SD)

Clean Chain	Texture Chain

4K Content (Native)

4K Native Pipeline

Nvidia VSR (Manual)

VSR Active	Detail View

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📝 Credits

• Anime4K: bloc97
• Anime4K-Ultra: Th-Underscore
• UOSC Skin: tomasklaen
• Thumbfast: po5
• Up Next Script: @WaruiDevil (Telegram User)
• Shaders: bloc97 (Anime4K), igv (FSRCNNX), bjin (KrigBilateral)
• Equalizer: DonCanjas
• mpv-youtube-download: cvzi
• mpv-subtitle-lines: christoph-heinrich
• Config & Logic: Customized and built by Chinna95P