Install kukkiri on Windows

The installer bundles everything kukkiri needs, including Python and ffmpeg. No admin rights required.

1. Check your GPU

You need an NVIDIA GTX 16-series / RTX 20-series or newer and driver 580 or newer. Unsure? See GPU setup.

2. Download and install

1. Open the latest release and download kukkiri-setup-<version>.exe.
2. Run it. kukkiri installs for your user only, into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\kukkiri.
3. If Windows SmartScreen warns about the download, choose More info → Run anyway.

3. First run

Start kukkiri from the Start menu. On the first restore it:

• downloads the model weights (about 250 MB) from Hugging Face and verifies their checksums;
• builds TensorRT engines for your GPU. This takes a few minutes once and is cached afterwards.

Weights go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\kukkiri\weights unless you choose another weights folder in the app.

4. Restore a video

1. Add videos or whole folders with the buttons, or drop them on the window.
2. Press Start. Files are restored one after another; each row shows progress and time left.
3. Double-click a finished row to open it.

To try a short section first, set Start and Duration before adding files. Stop ends the current file (its partial output is removed) and pauses the queue.

Troubleshooting

• Very slow or GPU not found: update the NVIDIA driver to 580+. On laptops, set kukkiri to the NVIDIA GPU in Settings → Display → Graphics.
• A file is declined: kukkiri found nothing to restore, or another tool already processed it. See limitations.
• Something else: open an issue.