I hope they'll get some design help.
Plasma Bigscreen
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Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't typically don't want to switch output resolution to match the resolution of whatever your outputting on modern displays, but instead want to match the panel resolution and software scale the content. You're way too likely to confuse the monitor trying to match resolution. There's something to be said for matching frame rate, but there's even more dragons in that practically.
Actually matching framerates is a lot more common, for example to provide smooth playback of 23.976/24 or 25 fps when the native refresh is 60hz (not cleanly divisible). Usually this is done by going up to 72hz or 75hz rather than down but it's a lot better than keeping at 60hz and stuttering. Previously this was accomplished with something called telecining which.. isn't great.,
Shouldn't the optimal solution be to adjust the display refresh rate using vesa adpative sync these days? No need for shitty interpolation when most panels can run at variable refresh rates.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#163If they expect ordinary people to use this, the Install page could use some love: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/ The very first heading is "Neon based reference rootfs". It gives the impression that you must know exactly what these words mean and what you're doing, or there's no hope of ever using this thing. (The classic 1990s style Linux onboarding experience, in other words.)
Note taken, the developer of Plasma Bigscreen asked for help recently with the content of the website (https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-promo/2022q3/000223.html). So if people have other recommendations or want to help, feel free to reach us in the #kde-promo:kde.org matrix channel or just post a comment to this message.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#164The 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?
I can attest that KODI has options to bypass the default audio format that was automatically selected during handshake usually through HDMI.
The use case is the following. Consider one that has:
* 5.1 capable audio system
* A TVBox (KODI)
* A TV
* A projector
* The TV apps can play 5.1 content
* The TVBox (KODI) can play 5.1 content when connected to TV through HMDI (5.1 was agreed in the handshake between TV and TVBox)
* The TVBox __cannot play__ 5.1 content when connected to projector through HDMI because the projector is stereo audio only and there is no option to accept 5.1 content.
It does not bypass ALSA. It uses ALSA. It bypasses the original HDMI handshake and follows the user's wishes.
Of course it does not work in my case because a) that's the universe we live and b) it hits some android capability / security problem and it switches back to stereo output.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#165Misleading to state that this turns your TV or set-up box into a fully hackable device, while the software just runs on a RaspberryPI
I agree. I thought this was something that you can load onto your smart TV.
I would love something like this, modern smart tv is kinda horrible experience and nobody is not making consumer dumptv anymore.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#166If they expect ordinary people to use this, the Install page could use some love: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/ The very first heading is "Neon based reference rootfs". It gives the impression that you must know exactly what these words mean and what you're doing, or there's no hope of ever using this thing. (The classic 1990s style Linux onboarding experience, in other words.)
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Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#167Name is so strange. Even people here think about old Plasma TVs.
We desperately need an alternative to Chromecast for all sort of web videos. There is none (even Apple Airplay is not as good).
That's one of the reasons why I cannot switch to privacy Android forks or non Chromium browsers.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#168Earlier 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.…
> ALSA had difficulty mixing multiple playback streams
At some point long before PulseAudio was ever a thing maybe but dmix with the default config has been working just fine all this time.
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your TV can't phone home unless you give it internet. Haven't heard of them shipping with mobile network access yet.
But when everyone keeps buying ""smart"" TVs and accepting the spyware, pretty soon they will start shipping with baked in 4G chips, and there will be no other option. Vote with your wallet by never buying a smart TV under any circumstance . They are cheaper than actual TVs because the data collected is so lucrative - buying one is implicitly supporting that slimy business model, even if you don't connect to WiFi.
Don’t even need 4G chips, just a regular ol’ wifi/bluetooth module thanks to stuff like Amazon Sidewalk: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/introducing-amazon-...
Re: Plasma Bigscreen
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure you'll only ever be able to have either an open source TV or all the streaming apps. No reason for Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, or the others to support this platform.
The biggest hurdle is the DRM. Plasma Bigscreen ship with it's own browser but you still need the proprietary blob for the DRM running on an ARM device instead of the usual one for intel/amd. Making things worse, even on intel/amd the video quality is often limited to 1080p on Linux.
Funny, since DRM is never an issue if you play pirated content. Arrgh maties!
But ironically, DRM is only a huge annoyance for paying law abiding customers.
Did you pay Ubisoft $50 10 years ago for Assassin's Creed 2, am amazing game? Great, because now you can go f*ck yourself instead of playing the game since Ubisoft took the server running the DRM for that game offline. Did you pirate the game? Great, because now you can play it for free indefinitely.
And there are countless horror stories of paying customer bases getting shafted on the products they (used to) own via DRM.