Warlock-Studio-Universal/CHANGELOG.md

📝 CHANGELOG — Warlock-Studio v2.1

Release Date: June 23, 2025

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🚀 Major Enhancements & Stability Overhaul

This version focuses on massive improvements to stability, error handling, and code robustness, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.

• 🛡️ Robust Error Handling:

  • Implemented comprehensive try...except blocks for AI model loading (AI_upscale & AI_interpolation) to prevent crashes if a model file is missing or corrupt.
  • Enhanced video frame extraction (extract_video_frames) with checks for file existence, successful video opening, and valid frame counts.
  • Made video encoding (video_encoding) more resilient by handling FFmpeg subprocess errors gracefully and providing clearer error messages.
  • Added a fallback for audio passthrough failures; the application now saves the video without audio instead of failing the entire process.

• 🧵 Safe Thread & Process Management:

  • Replaced the unsafe thread-stopping mechanism (which intentionally raised an error) with a modern, safe threading.Event (stop_thread_flag).
  • Ensures clean and predictable termination of background monitoring threads.

• ⚙️ Resilient Core Processing:

  • Added pre-flight checks to the metadata copy function (copy_file_metadata) to ensure exiftool.exe and source/destination files exist before execution.

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🎨 UI/UX Refinements

• 🎨 Refined Color Palette:
  • Updated the main application theme for a new aesthetic.
  • App Name Color (app_name_color) changed to a golden yellow (#ECD125).
  • Widget Background Color (widget_background_color) changed to a deep red (#960707).
  • Default active button border color updated to red to match the new theme.

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🔧 Code & Maintainability Improvements

• 🧹 Improved Code Organization:

  • Refactored file extension lists into clearer, separate categories: supported_image_extensions and supported_video_extensions.

• 📦 Dependency and Initialization:

  • Added new standard library imports (shutil.move, subprocess.CalledProcessError, threading.Event) to support the stability enhancements.
  • Ensured safer initialization of global variables at startup.

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📝 CHANGELOG — Warlock-Studio v2.0

Release Date: June 6, 2025

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🚀 Major Features

• 🧠 AI Frame Interpolation Support (New Module):

  • Introduced a new class AI_interpolation, providing frame generation capabilities using RIFE-based ONNX models.
  • Allows generation of 1 (x2), 3 (x4), or 7 (x8) intermediate frames, including slow-motion variants.
  • Enables temporal upscaling of video via AI.

• 🎥 RIFE Models Integration:

  • Added RIFE and RIFE_Lite to supported models.
  • Interpolation model list introduced: RIFE_models_list.
  • Extended AI_models_list to include all model types: SRVGGNetCompact, BSRGAN, IRCNN, and RIFE.

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✨ Enhancements

• 🎨 Visual/UI Redesign:

  • App renamed to "Warlock-Studio" (with hyphen).
  • Background and widget colors updated: darker tones (#121212, #454242).
  • Text color changed to bright white (#FFFFFF).
  • App name highlighted in red (#FF0E0E).

• 📂 Version-Specific User Preferences:

  • Preferences now saved under versioned filenames like Warlock-Studio_2.0_UserPreference.json.
  • Prevents conflict with previous versions' configuration.

• 🧬 Modular and Scalable Layout System:

  • New GUI constants introduced (e.g. offset_y_options, column_1_5, column_2_9, etc.).
  • Enables more fine-tuned interface arrangement.

• 💾 Extended File Type Compatibility:

  • Added new image/video file extensions to supported_file_extensions and supported_video_extensions.
  • Ensures broader compatibility with input formats.

• 🚀 Improved GPU Execution Support:

  • Enhanced logic for selecting GPU via DirectML.
  • Supports up to 4 GPUs (Auto, GPU 1 to GPU 4) via provider_options.

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🔧 Technical Refinements

• 🧹 Better Model List Structure:

  • Models now grouped logically by type with MENU_LIST_SEPARATOR.
  • Makes UI dropdowns cleaner and more organized.

• 🧪 Advanced Interpolation Logic:

  • Support for dynamic multi-frame generation with tree-based logic (e.g. A-B-C from D).

• 📊 Improved Numeric Precision and Postprocessing:

  • Improved handling of floating-point range and normalization.
  • Enhanced logic for RGB/RGBA conversion and alpha blending.

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🦖 UI/UX Refinements

• 📏 Resizable Message Dialogs:

  • MessageBox window can now be resized by the user (resizable(True, True)).

• 👌 Improved Dialog Formatting:

  • Better spacing and ordering of message elements.
  • Cleaner font use and default value display.

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✅ Minor Fixes

• 🔧 Fixed UI typo: corrected ttext_color to text_color.
• 🪯 Enhanced inline comments and structural organization for better readability and maintainability.

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📝 CHANGELOG — Warlock-Studio v1.1

Release Date: May 20, 2025

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✨ Major Improvements

• ⚡ Program Startup Optimization: Startup time has been significantly reduced.

• 📦 Model Loading Improvements: Improved loading speed for models.

• 🔧 General Performance Optimization: Refactored core components. Background processing is now more efficient and uses fewer resources.

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🐛 Minor Fixes

• Minor UI adjustments to improve accessibility.