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glynor:

--- Quote from: jgreen on June 29, 2006, 11:10:00 am ---Clearly a schism has appeared in the beta test crew

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I'd call it more of a crevice.   ;D

I really don't care too much.  I just agree that all "Playback" controls should be consolidated under the same "roof" (including the new Video settings), and accessable from a quick, easy button.

Once you throw Video Brightness and Aspect Ratio in there, DSP Studio doesn't make much sense anymore.

Doof:

--- Quote from: glynor on June 29, 2006, 11:13:36 am ---Once you throw Video Brightness and Aspect Ratio in there, DSP Studio doesn't make much sense anymore.

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Agreed.

Doof:
Was just playing around in here, and the more I use it the more I think all of the playback settings (audio, video, and image, including the DSP stuff and whatever video stuff gets added) should all be in one spot. It doesn't make much sense to click on a button that takes you one place, but then have to right click on that same button to get to the playback settings.

And the Playback Options screen needs some work. Audio playback is very prominent, but then all of the other playback modes (video, images, dvd) are buried. And then TV Tuner is doing it's own thing entirely.

I'm just thinking that this whole area could benefit greatly from some streamlining. I really hate having a button that has one main function and then a bunch of other functions buried under a right click menu. It's not intuitive at all. Maybe rename the button a simple "Playback Settings" and then have one dialog that has all of these things in there in a really streamlined way.

And actually, I'm starting to like the idea of having all of this in the Action Window more and more. Take a look at how WMP manages to show all of these things in a way that unified with the main UI. Something like that.

GHammer:
Playback Controls
- Audio
- Video

I do like the way WMP lets you manage most things related to playback hwile you are playing something.

gpvillamil:

--- Quote from: jgreen on June 29, 2006, 11:10:00 am ---Clearly a schism has appeared in the beta test crew:  the pro-studio loyalists and, well, those other guys.  Even though "studio" is definitely a noun, it conveys a verb-like sense of action, of destiny.  Therefore I think it's fine like it is, and maybe jriver ought to name more things "studio".
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Actually "studio" comes from the same latin root as "study" - a place where things are calmly examined, understood and constructed. Hence an artist's studio. This is why the Visualization Studio makes sense - it's a little workshop for making visualizations. Someone who understands this terminology would assume that a DSP Studio is like a work area for building DSP configurations - in the same sense as the Viz Studio. But it's not. It's just the dialog for the playback settings.

Incidentally - this leads to another idea: the ability to create and save presets for the entire DSP Studio (Playback Settings) not just the equalizer.

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