How to Install LivePortrait in Windows/macOS

Step 1 - Download Live Portrait repository

1. Go to https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

2. Click on Code and then download Zip

1. Then create a folder called e.g. LivePortrait in place like Desktop or Documents. Then, copy all the content of the downloaded files into this folder

Step 2 - Download pretrained weights

1. Go to this link based on the Google Drive link below in https://github.com/KwaiVGI/LivePortrait

1. Download both folder into your local computer

3. Go to the LivePortrait folder you created in Step 1 and copy both of the folders into pretrained_weights folder

Step 3 - Create conda environment

We will create a Python conda environment to run the code. For those of you who does not now what conda environment is, you can just imagine that it’s a place for you to install all the dependencies/software required to run the LivePortrait software.

1. Install Miniconda from https://docs.anaconda.com/miniconda/#miniconda-latest-installer-links

2. Create conda environment, the environment will be created at the default directory of conda (e.g. /opt/miniconda3/envs/LivePortrait for macOS or C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Miniconda3\envs\LivePortrait for Windows)

# create env using conda
conda create -n LivePortrait python=3.9

1. Activate conda environment

conda activate LivePortrait

1. Navigate to the LivePortrait directory and install requirements in your conda environment

# for Linux and Windows users
pip install -r requirements.txt

# for macOS with Apple Silicon users
# Edit the requirements_macOS.txt to change the version of onnxruntime-silicon==1.16.3 to onnxruntime-silicon==1.16.0
cd /Users/chenming/Documents/LivePortrait
pip install -r requirements_macOS.txt

Step 4 - Install ffmpeg

macOS

1. Install homebrew at https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases/tag/4.3.12

1. Install ffmpeg using Terminal, just open the Terminal app

Open Terminal

# Install ffmpeg using brew
brew install ffmpeg

# Verify that ffmpeg is installed
ffmpeg

Windows

1. Install by following this step here: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ffmpeg-windows

Step 5 - Open web interface

# For Linux and Windows users
cd C:\Users\chenming\Documents\LivePortrait
python app.py

# for macOS with Intel
cd /Users/chenming/Documents/LivePortrait
python app.py

# For macOS with Apple Silicon users
cd /Users/chenming/Documents/LivePortrait
PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1 python app.py

You should see something like this 👇

Open your web url at:

http://127.0.0.1:8890