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Re: Plasma Bigscreen

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Post by nephanth »

mappu wrote: post #92
rascul wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would really like to know more about this, and I can't seem to find anything about it. Are these projects implementing their own drivers for all the various audio hardware they can use instead of using ALSA? That certainly wasn't the case some years back when I used OpenElec.

"ALSA" has two meanings - there is only one set of Linux kernel audio drivers, and they're all ALSA no matter what distro you use. I think you're talking about this meaning. The other meaning of "ALSA" is libasound / asound.conf / dmix, the old userspace audio stack, which is deprecated since Pulseaudio except for a few holdout distros. ALSA had difficulty mixing multiple playback streams, let alone bitstreaming DTS.…

Doesn't pulseaudio solve that though ?

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#102

Post by ariendj »

rascul wrote: post #44
LeoPanthera wrote: post #41

The killer feature of Kodi (on most hardware, for example the Raspberry Pi) is that it can switch the output resolution to match the video you are playing. It also bypasses things like ALSA in order to be able to bit-bang audio in supported formats directly to an external receiver. These are basic functions of normal video playback devices like blu-ray players or cable boxes. A Plasma skin can't do any of this. So wh…

How does Kodi bypass ALSA?

It does no such thing. It either plays out via ALSA or Pulseaudio.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#103

Post by lifeisstillgood »

There is a missing HOWTO in my life - a FOSS based home guide. I would like to take advantage of linux on the home router, or this TV or better ways to cross manage messaging on different platforms.

Basically years ago FOSS made things simpler because it gave you back control.

Now maybe I am just out of the loop, but I am not feeling the control in the everyday.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#104

Post by marktolson »

Lammy wrote: post #58

I realize "Plasma" is the name of the KDE presentation layer across all platforms, but it's mildly awkward to see in this context considering plasma TVs have only been a dead technology for six years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

I'm still rocking my 12 year old plasma TV, the thing won't die!

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#105

Post by ariendj »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #41

The killer feature of Kodi (on most hardware, for example the Raspberry Pi) is that it can switch the output resolution to match the video you are playing. It also bypasses things like ALSA in order to be able to bit-bang audio in supported formats directly to an external receiver. These are basic functions of normal video playback devices like blu-ray players or cable boxes. A Plasma skin can't do any of this. So wh…

Audio passthrough on the pi is done using ALSA. There is no bitbanging of anything going on here.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#107

Post by voidfunc »

Lammy wrote: post #58

I realize "Plasma" is the name of the KDE presentation layer across all platforms, but it's mildly awkward to see in this context considering plasma TVs have only been a dead technology for six years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

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Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#108

Post by Toutouxc »

voidfunc wrote: post #107
Lammy wrote: post #58

I realize "Plasma" is the name of the KDE presentation layer across all platforms, but it's mildly awkward to see in this context considering plasma TVs have only been a dead technology for six years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

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I agree with what you’re saying, but you could’ve said it nicer.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#109

Post by atoav »

sandebert wrote: post #99
donatj wrote: post #87

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Yup. I wandered around page for about 20 seconds before realizing it wasn't some sort of open source hardware plasma TV.

I only realized it after reading this thread. Seems like a very confusing name chosen.

In combination with "Bigscreen" for sure.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#110

Post by newaccount74 »

vineyardmike wrote: post #43
andrew_ wrote: post #34

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This. And it just kills me how so many things "linux" look so unpolished. Why is it so difficult for projects like this to find and get designers interested?

This comes up a lot… The reason is that no OSS projects want a product manager. They want contributors. Most projects, if you say “I think the gui should look like X” they’ll reply with “show me the pull request then”. No one wants a manager when they’re already volunteering, and not enough people who have the skills to make things look aesthetic exist and contribute. Source: look at other comments on this article.

I think the problem is deeper than that: To do a good UI, you need multiple skills: design, development, user testing, etc. It's rare that a single person can do all of that, so you need multiple people to collaborate, which is hard, because of the lack of managers.

So you only get contributions from people who can contribute on their own, which is developers.

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