[mythtv-users] do we need a vido configuration tester

[Dan Wilga]

On 8/23/10 1:33 PM, Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
> I think it would be useful to have a utility that helps determine the 
> performance of the various de-interlacers on your hardware.
>
> I would imagine something built into the frontend that would test 
> playback at a few different resolutions with various de-interlacers 
> and spit out a log of the results. This would help quickly determine 
> which is the best de-interlacer to use for your setup, and where to 
> make the cutoffs.
>
> I'm just speculating here, but I find myself going between LiveTV and 
> the TV Playback setup very frequently attempting to tweak my settings. 
> I could also see these logs being used to create a hardware 
> performance database.

I would wholeheartedly agree. I don't know what the UI for this would 
look like, though, as there are so many options one might want to tweak 
between playback attempts. You'd have to re-create much of what's 
already there on those 3 or 4 pages.

By the way, one thing I've found helpful in the past is to run two 
copies of MFE on the same machine. One stays at Watch Recordings, and 
the other is used to tweak the settings. Alt-Tab back and forth between 
the two. It's still a lot of laborious Return keypresses to keep hitting 
those Next buttons in the UI, though.

-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."