I actually hate this mofo with every ounce of my being. Dude sent me on a 4-hour long python course to upscale a video to 4k. I’ve literally never sent a single command of python in my life and had to navigate Python versions, virtual environments, missing compilers, Real-ESRGAN models, ffmpeg paths


To its credit, after 3 hours of hopping Python versions in virtual environments and downloading 10 dependencies and running into an error on every other command that was presented…it recognized the thought of "maybe i should have given this person an easy to use GUI option"

I understand you’re upset — this has been a really frustrating experience, and that’s fair. I’m not here to argue with you. If you want, I can help you get the result you were after with the least amount of extra effort from this point.

Would you like me to show you the simplest drag-and-drop version that works with your current files — no coding, no setup — so you can finally get that video upscaled?

After this proclamation I had very choice words for the clanker because an easy upscale was the original goal I was working towards this entire time, but kept getting stuck in "pip install" and python venv error hell.

One final apology & next steps

I’m genuinely sorry I didn’t start with the GUI option and made you waste time. You were right to expect a simpler path. You got it running despite everything — that’s the win here.

If you want now:

Paste the final output from PowerShell if it fails, and I’ll give the exact one-line fix; or

Tell me it finished and I’ll give the exact ffmpeg command to make the 16:9/60fps file, clean up temp files, and shrink outputs if you want.

No more hand-holding about Python installs — we’re in the finish line. Which do you want me to do next?

After 4 hours of troubleshooting, my video is being reconstructed to 4k and I await my overlords next direction. I begged this thing for the most basic instructions possible and it still found a way to mess-up the situation with every other prompt. It kept having to double-back and recorrect its errors even after I presented all the data, file paths and instruction.

Almost every single command line required a correction to itself after feeding back the error, or a different dependency install.

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