[XviD-devel] new gui proposal
Radek Czyz
radoslaw at airnet.com.au
Fri Mar 28 23:52:16 CET 2003
Hi,
I had a bit different ideas about vfw gui. I'll think them over again
and post them - not that I really really care, I can work using any
gui ;))
> 1.0 MAIN DIALOG
Let me just tell you that I don't really like this very small 'main
dialog'. You have to click on 'advanced' to do most things. Oh well,
I'll propose mine someday (ie tommorow or never)
> +-Motion Search--------------------------+
> | |
> | Motion search precision: [ HIGH ] |
> | VHQ [WIDE SEARCH] |
> | [X] Greyscale |
> | [X] Chroma motion |
> | Frame skip ratio % [ ] |
> | |
> +----------------------------------------+
I think all speed/quality settings should look like this:
+Speed/quality---------------------+
| |
| |-------------*-----------| | (a)
| |
| Current setting: speed 100% | (b)
| quality 100% | (c)
| |
+----------------------------------+
The point is to:
1) not to haress users with technical stuff, such as VHQ or chroma
motion (or even the idea of motion estimation)
2) give them a general idea of what it does, and what to expect.
Now, explanations:
(a) It'a a big slider with several settings. The more it goes to
right, the slower encoding is, and we hope to gain quality
(b) selected speed. 100% is the default, whatever it is. Once the
slider (a) moves, it changes. I fully understand that it will
depend on many things (cpu and resolution..) but it gives the
general idea, of how slow a setting is going to be. It's measured on
640x resolution, simple profile, my own pc (unless more volunteers
come up, I wouldn't count on it)
(c) this gives a general idea how much quality can be gained using
chosen setting. The value, in %, says that given clip will look
like if you used default setting (100%), but at
increased/decreased bitrate. 110% means that if you used default
setting, but increased bitrate by 10%, you'd have the same quality.
Again, I'm aware that it will not be precise. However, I really
really think that it's better than "Chroma Motion" which "should
improve quality and should be slower" <-- well come on, it doesn't
say anything...
Please tell me what do you think. As I said, I'll post 'my gui'
tommorow. It will include an "advanced" tab/window which will consist
of all api flags, with a big adnotation that "for help, consult
xvid source files" and no other info. It will be mostly for us, but
some rare/not needed settings would be there.
Until next time,
Radek
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