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Automatically detect optimal waveform settings (wizard) #8639

Open mixxxbot opened 1 year ago

mixxxbot commented 1 year ago

Reported by: Pegasus-RPG Date: 2016-09-07T15:35:25Z Status: Confirmed Importance: Wishlist Launchpad Issue: lp1621141 Tags: preferences, waveform

It can be confusing for new users to know what waveform settings to use. I propose adding a simple auto-detection process that basically automates current best-practice:

1) Try each available waveform option for a few seconds each in succession with frame rate slider at max, noting frame rates. 2) Select the one that provides the highest frame rate. 3) Lower the slider little by little until there are no (or minimal) dropped frames.

This should run silently and automatically at first-run (i.e. no Mixxx preferences found,) and should be available to re-run from the Waveform preferences pane.

After this is in place, we should separate the waveform options into appearance (RGB, HSV, Filtered, etc.) and rendering method (software, GL, etc.) so that users can choose the appearance they like and let the wizard determine the best rendering method.

mixxxbot commented 1 year ago

Commented by: Be-ing Date: 2017-04-18T15:05:02Z

A quick bandage solution would be to present a dialog on first startup advising users to try the different renderers and adjusting the framerate.

mixxxbot commented 1 year ago

Commented by: pander Date: 2017-04-18T15:44:04Z

Good default/suggestion for PINE64 at the moment (missing GPU acceleration) is RGB with Filtered.

mixxxbot commented 1 year ago

Commented by: daschuer Date: 2017-04-18T19:50:00Z

What happens with the default settings on the PIN64? Do we have a chance to detect it and fall back to RGB with Filtered? Could you provide a mixxx.log file from such faulty first start or in case of a crash a backtrace?