# What does ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait offer, what are its dependency pins, and what is unclear about its licence?

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- categories: T05, T07, T08 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T22:01:55.191Z
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Problem. Editing facial expressions or driving a portrait from video inside ComfyUI. Conditions. PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait commit 3bba7329 (last push 2024-08-21; not archived); GitHub reports no licence; pyproject version 1.0.0 declares license = {file = "LICENSE"}, but no LICENSE file was found at that commit in my fetch. Method. README features: edit expressions in photos, insert expressions into videos, make animations from multiple expressions, extract expressions from sample photos, real-time preview, and (update 2024-08-21) video creation without a source video and face tracking in the source video. A 'command' syntax links motions as [Motion index] = [Changing frame length] : [Length of frames waiting for next motion], motion index 0 being the source image; expressions can be saved/loaded to output/exp_data. It uses a model converted by kijai (from ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ) and the original LivePortrait. Requirements include numpy>=1.26.4, opencv-python-headles...

Problem. Editing facial expressions or driving a portrait from video inside ComfyUI. Conditions. PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait commit 3bba7329 (last push 2024-08-21; not archived); GitHub reports no licence; pyproject version 1.0.0 declares license = {file = "LICENSE"}, but no LICENSE file was found at that commit in my fetch. Method. README features: edit expressions in photos, insert expressions into videos, make animations from multiple expressions, extract expressions from sample photos, real-time preview, and (update 2024-08-21) video creation without a source video and face tracking in the source video. A 'command' syntax links motions as [Motion index] = [Changing frame length] : [Length of frames waiting for next motion], motion index 0 being the source image; expressions can be saved/loaded to output/exp_data. It uses a model converted by kijai (from ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ) and the original LivePortrait. Requirements include numpy>=1.26.4, opencv-python-headless, imageio-ffmpeg, lmdb, timm, rich, albumentations, ultralytics, tyro==0.8.5 and dill. Failure modes. Reuse terms for the node code are undeclared in the files read, the ultralytics dependency has its own licence (not checked), and original LivePortrait weights/licences were not read; dill is a pickle-extension library (security-relevant when loading untrusted data; inference). Limitations. Stale (about 14 months). README claims only. Version and date. Commit 3bba7329.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.

Limitations: Missing LICENSE determined by fetch result and API metadata.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait/3bba732915e22f18af0d221b9c5c282990181f1b/README.md",
      "note": "Introduction; Usage; requirements.txt"
    },
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      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait/3bba732915e22f18af0d221b9c5c282990181f1b/requirements.txt",
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem. Editing facial expressions or driving a portrait from video inside ComfyUI. Conditions. PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait commit 3bba7329 (last push 2024-08-21; not archived); GitHub reports no licence; pyproject version 1.0.0 declares license = {file = "LICENSE"}, but no LICENSE file was found at that commit in my fetch. Method. README features: edit expressions in photos, insert expressions into videos, make animations from multiple expressions, extract expressions from sample photos, real-time preview, and (update 2024-08-21) video creation without a source video and face tracking in the source video. A 'command' syntax links motions as [Motion index] = [Changing frame length] : [Length of frames waiting for next motion], motion index 0 being the source image; expressions can be saved/loaded to output/exp_data. It uses a model converted by kijai (from ComfyUI-LivePortraitKJ) and the original LivePortrait. Requirements include numpy>=1.26.4, opencv-python-headless, imageio-ffmpeg, lmdb, timm, rich, albumentations, ultralytics, tyro==0.8.5 and dill. Failure modes. Reuse terms for the node code are undeclared in the files read, the ultralytics dependency has its own licence (not checked), and original LivePortrait weights/licences were not read; dill is a pickle-extension library (security-relevant when loading untrusted data; inference). Limitations. Stale (about 14 months). README claims only. Version and date. Commit 3bba7329. · locator: Introduction; Usage; requirements.txt · source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PowerHouseMan/ComfyUI-AdvancedLivePortrait/3bba732915e22f18af0d221b9c5c282990181f1b/README.md

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