manni,
You've been a lot of help, but sometimes your posts come across as pushy -- more demands than requests. If you want to live in madVR land, please do it, and without giving us one last ultimatum.
I appreciate your technical expertise and eagerness for progress, but in the list above, Hendrik already gave you a work-around, and mattkahn just gave you another. That you don't get precisely what you expect is just life. Live with it.
Niklas and Hendrik have done something amazing and incredibly useful.
As we say, you're either on the bus, or you're not.
Jim
Jim, I didn't put any ultimatum, and I apologise if my post came accross as demands.
Please take all the time you need, or don't do anything, I'm not making any demands. I'm 100% on board with MC, and yes Hendrik and Niklas have done something amazing with JRVR, but this is a comparison thread, so I posted where I believe JRVR is still lacking compared to madVR and why I've (temporarily) paused using it.
I've accepted the old driver workaround as I have no choice, and as I said the solution offered by Mattkhan is about something that's not a big deal for me (shortkeys and command line for profiles). The two biggies are brightness stability and vertical picture shift. Without these, I can't use JRVR. It's as simple as that. Hendrik has already confirmed that he'll be looking into the brightness stability issue soonish (not sure which workaround you're talking about, I haven't seen any from him, Haasn didn't reply when I asked more details on which parameters to use in JRVR in order to fix the issue). Re the vertical shift, I understand that there is no ETA for scheduled features, but it's been a few months now and I have no guarantee that it will ever be implemented. So without an ETA, I'm off JRVR for now.
It's a purely personal position, and obviously not something relevant for anyone without a projector (and most likely a 16/9 screen). Given that it's likely a niche part of your audience, I could completely understand if it was to take years or even was never implemented, but then why should I invest time in a feature (JRVR) that I can't use, when one (madVR) already provides what's missing, and currently with significantly better PQ? It doesn't make sense for me and I hope you can understand this.
For me, brightness stability and vertical picture shift (preferably in real-time) are big deals.
You find me pushy, I find support often dismissive. Often, my feedback is dismissed until/unless one of the "regulars" confirms the issue. It's not very pleasant, even if I can understand. I guess we both have to live with this.
It takes a lot of time to contribute and look into a rendering solution in order to help improve it. I'm happy to do this if it's a renderer I can use. If it's not, I just can't afford the time. My hobby is not to spend time on renderers, my hobby (and my work, I work in film & TV) is to watch content in the best possible way. I hope you'll understand.
I explained why I can't use JRVR at the moment. I'm not demanding anything and I can definitely live without JRVR.
This being said, I'd love it if JRVR could fit my needs better, and I'll be happy to help and contribute if it does.
I don't think one has to choose the land they live in. Competition is always a good thing. I did push for madVR to improve it's saturation, and I did say at the time (publicly) that JRVR was superior in that aspect, so competition is always in the interest of the user. I strongly believe that there is room for both madVR and JRVR, they both have their pros and cons, and I refuse to be in one land or the other, even if I've paused using JRVR for now.
I still use JRiver MC with madVR, and I love MC (it's the only player I use, even if I do so with a different front end). I regularly recommend it, and if it's supported in CMC it's because I suggested it many years ago. Hopefully it's not because I'm (temporarily) off the JRVR wagon that you're going to throw me out of the MC train.