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<p class=MsoPlainText>G'day Doug and all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To further my comments I wrote previously, I have tried a
latest SVN snapshot version of "vic" and I like the "right click
for context menu" to select a video size. I think this is great!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I am wondering if it could be possible to expand upon
this and implement a "nested menu" option. Therefore, when you right
click on the video stream, you may have a couple of menu options such as (names
not important, just the concept):<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Video Size<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>QFIC<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>CIF<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>SCIF<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>1/16 NTCS<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>1/4 NTCS<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>NTCS<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>1/16 PAL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>1/4 PAL<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Other options<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]>Scroll Video Streams (shortcut being “<”)<o:p></o:p></p>
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l0 level2 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Panorama View (shortcut being “x”)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Another option I really liked
on a older version of open mash, was the way you could set the video stream to
cycle through video streams every 5 or so seconds… This is a great
feature if you have limited screen real-estate and simply wanted to keep an eye
on things. If this is still possible, it would be nice to have this as a menu
option as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Additionally, it would be nice if you could implement a "right
click for context menu" option on the video stream thumbnail screen. This
would allow users to select tile arrangement and other nice things.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Anyway, as you can see from my suggestions, most of the
things that I have suggested, are already possible to do it “vic”.
It is simply making the interface more user-friendly and simpler to use.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Does this at all sound feasible and possible???<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I hope again that this is the appropriate forum to
discuss these ideas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks for your time,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Jason.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Douglas Kosovic [mailto:douglask@itee.uq.edu.au] <br>
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:28 PM<br>
To: sumover-tech<br>
Subject: Re: [Sumover-tech] Usability issues with "vic"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Hi Jason,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> 1. The issue for me here is that I wouldn't
like to clutter up the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> video streams with addition menu options, like an
old version of the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> openmash version of vic, but it would be useful if a
user could somehow <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> have a menu option (or whatever) that allows them to
resize, or other <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> vic "shortcut" key options... (How many
people know that by hitting the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> "<" button on a video stream, they can
scroll through the video streams)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Perhaps the Help dialog box should be updated with info
on the keyboard <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>shortcuts, etc. The current VIC SVN version now has a
right mouse button <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>context menu (which is the same video size menu as found
in the video <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>window menu bar from older UCL VICs).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Doug<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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