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lepa:
Are there any plans to tonemap/re-encode DV videos for remotes to get correct colors also over MCWS?

Hendrik:
In the next JRVR update, output settings are moving to a per-display basis, as that makes a lot more sense when you are configuring settings that reflect the properties of a screen, and not performance or quality.

In that process, I ended up with an empty title screen above the possible outputs, and a thought was to include some rough hints on the most major output settings.



Let me know what you think, or if I should change some of the text in some manner. Explaining something you know by heart in a short sequence is always tricky.


--- Quote from: lepa on April 16, 2022, 02:38:05 am ---Are there any plans to tonemap/re-encode DV videos for remotes to get correct colors also over MCWS?

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Perhaps in the future, there are quite some challenges there, but thats not a JRVR topic.

rec head:
Nice work. I think it is pretty clear.

Is it possible to make "Enable OS HDR Support when playing HDR10" a link to a wiki page or even an outside page?  A nice guide on how to do it might reduce questions and confusion. A link to a good Youtube video might be the best.

Hendrik:
Work on improving/simplifying the options dialog continues, here is the new "General" page, as well as the re-done Output page (with advanced mode disabled)




Generally, I tried to hide options that are not required for basic usage, leaving only those important enough for most people to touch.
Advanced Mode will generally show those options which existed before that are currently hidden, as well as possibly convert some options for more control - eg. the brightness slider will turn into a textbox.

I debated with myself to hide Calibration entirely under advanced, however I would like ICC profiles to be applied by default, and if that is unexpected for someone, having the option right there to disable it seems important.

PS:
The Presets on the General page will be implemented in a follow-up build, but I wanted to get the options in to give that page its full design.

PPS:
The brightness slider currently goes from 80 to 400, which seemed like a good default brightness range for HDR to SDR tonemapping to me. Feel free to comment if the range should be increased - but also remember that in advanced mode its a textbox like before.

jmone:
WOW - that looks terrific!  Not only nicely laid out but is so much more accessible.  Also a good description of the functions.

I love how you have automatically determined if the screen is both HDR capable and if it is already in HDR Mode, a couple of suggestions
  - if the screen is NOT HDR capable, should the two HDR options below it be greyed out?
  - if Use the display's HDR capability for HDR videos is Unchecked, should the "Automatically switch to HDR mode..." be greyed out.


Also like the look of Quality Presents as this will cover most cases yet still have advanced for twiddling.

Keeping ICC profiles outside advanced makes sense. 

That range for the SDR brightness slider should be OK... there might be some PJ's under 80, but I doubt there are many (if any) SDR screens hitting 400.  I presume under advanced, you can type in any value.

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