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JRVR Profiles Discussion

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jgreen:
I tried JRVR for the first time and I am very impressed.  My goal was to A/B it against similar settings in MadVR, and on first blush it looks like I get simlar results with about half the internal GPU load. I'm quite impressed, barring Placebo-itis.

I do have a feature request, and here I'd promised myself I wouldn't.  Image enhancements for sports, in particular action sports, would naturally be quite different from those prefered for say, dramas.  Is there any potential for adding an MC field whereby we can select and save off presets, so that each time I click to play my ski racing vids they get much less sharpening (thereby reducing judder), than say my large collection of vids of, er, Eastern-bloc ambassadoresses?  Thought I'd ask!

Hendrik:
We plan to have some kind of profile system for JRVR settings, but how exactly it'll work is not decided yet.

One option is a system similar to madVR (and similar to ZoneSwitch) where you create settings profiles and then can setup rules which profile is activated - but without actually switching zones, as that implies a lot of extra complexity.
The other option would be similar to how DSP profiles work, where you can tell each file which profile it should use. Both concepts have advantages and disadvantages. Maybe a combination of both, as in you have Profiles and selection rules, but ít can be overriden on a per-file basis if so desired.

jmone:
I'd suggest there are probably 3 levels as we (sort of) have now for video:  Default, Zone, and File (using Playback Info).  Making it easy to use these three levels is another thing!

Hendrik:
I'd prefer to not rely on actual Zones. As we expand the areas in MC with complex configuration, a global "Zone" to govern them all just explodes in complexity.

Assume you have different Zones for audio. Maybe for Headphones and Speakers, maybe for Speakers you got a Day and Night setup, so thats 3 Zones. An OK amount for controlling basically the audio output.
Now you want different video settings, maybe based on content, one for Sports, one for Cinema-style content, one for Animes.

To cover all these settings, you end up with 9 zones already (all possible combinations). Thats really getting out of hand, and becomes entirely unusable, as well as requiring setting up everything in triplicate.

Hence, I prefer a separate profile driven system thats independent of zones entirely. Of course you could also setup a rule to load a certain profile when a certain zone is active, to tie it back together if needed.

jmone:
I agree, Zones are not ideal at all.  I was more suggesting there is a hierarchy (say Default, Profile, File for want of better terms)

If File has "Playback Info Set" use that, else
   If File matches a Profile use that, else
      use Default.

I'd also prefer the use of Meta Data to drive the matching to a profile, rather than part of the filename.

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