Make Video Comparison tool accept .avs files

[Samhayne]

May I request a feature?
I'm heavily using StaxRip's Video Comparison tool.

Big disappointment today when the UI looked like I could load an .avs script in there for comparison - but it didn't work as expected.

Would be so helpful when comparing sources with different framerate / frame count / frame interpolation or where one video has a slight offset.

It looks like StaxRip is under the hood generating an .avs file in "C:\Users[User]\AppData\Local\Temp" as soon as a video is loaded in the Video Comparison tool - but manipulating this .avs is useless as the comparison tool doesn't seem to reload it ever.

[Dendraspis]

Better: You could compare the filtered/tuned output with the original file without encoding at high quality to prevent wrong settings due to encoding quality loss.

Even better: You could fine tune settings and directly compare them with the source file.

[Dendraspis]

And even better: It's already implemented for the next release. 🥳

Because this was pretty tricky, there might be some bugs and space for improvements, but it works, as long as you don't add filters/settings, that require new dependency loadings. Feel free to report everything apart from that. 😅

[Samhayne]

Wow. That was lightning-fast! How awesome is this??
SO looking forward to the next release.

Thanks, @Dendraspis !

[Dendraspis]

Let's see how it works for you and others first. 😅

The release will be published this week....

[Samhayne]

Uuh! The new version is out for two days already!
Tested it out and it works wonderfully for me.
The way I used it, I didn't find any quirks.

Only noticed a minor unrelated annoyance.
But I'll rather create a new feature request for that. :)

Thanks again so much, @Dendraspis!

[Dendraspis]

Yeah, there is a lot of space for improvements, but yeah.
Have fun using it...