This is a port of Anime4K to Metal. It dynamically translates GLSL shaders to Metal shaders and applies them in order during video playback. All shaders and presets from the Anime4K project should work regardless of performance.

• Xcode 13.0+
• iOS 15.0+
• macOS 12.0+ (via Mac Catalyst)
• tvOS 15.0+

Download in Releases.

All presets are the same as defined the official Anime4K instructions.

*Note: The above footages are only for demo purpose.

Only mp4 files with yuv420 pixel format are supported by the OS built-in decoder. Other formats must be converted to the supported format.

Pick the desired shader or preset under Shader selection section. Not all shaders and presets will run well on all devices. If you see obvious dropped frames please use a smaller shader or preset instead. Large shaders and presets will take longer time to convert and compile. In the meantime the app will appear not responsive.

On tvOS no local file can be accessed. You can start a HTTP server (for example nginx) on macOS and play from URL on tvOS.

Click the cell Input URL. Input URL (http://xxx). Then click done and Play. The video should start playing

On iOS and macOS you can simply click Select file and pick a local file to play.

1. Clone this project:

git clone https://github.com/imxieyi/Anime4KMetal.git
cd Anime4KMetal
git submodule update --init

2. Open Anime4KMetal.xcodeproj.
3. Select target and build. For macOS please use Anime4KMetal (iOS).

To test the shader converter simply launch the XCTest suite on a target device.

There are a ton of shader warnings due to unused variables. These messages can be ignored.

• Due to how bilinear sampler works in Metal the output image is not subpixel aligned with the original image.
• The resulting image is different from mpv, also due to the sampler issue.

This project is licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

• GLSL shaders are from Anime4K
• Shader converter referenced code from mpv