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Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#41

Post by LeoPanthera »

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 while it's probably very suitable for things like games and photo frames on a big screen, I fear that it is disadvantaged from the start for video and audio.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#42

Post by vineyardmike »

jstanley wrote: post #15
gkhartman wrote: post #8

If a display manufacturer produced a quality display and supported something like this, I wouldn't mind paying a good deal extra for it. I wouldn't even mind if it shipped with a proprietary OS and I had to do the installation myself. I'd love to see Framework or Purism make a Linux powered smart TV.

What does this get you over connecting up an old laptop to a TV screen and controlling it with a bluetooth keyboard?

To add to this, if you use an over the top box (eg Apple TV, game consume, laptop), you don’t really need anything more than a display. All the smarts just add lag and add GUI items that can be buggy. My Samsung takes like 20 seconds between power and and display content simply because it tries to load the smart GUI, and times out on network connection (which doesn’t exist).

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#43

Post by vineyardmike »

andrew_ wrote: post #34
ekianjo wrote: post #33

It does not tranform your TV into anything. it needs a RPi in order to do anything.

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.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#44

Post by rascul »

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?

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#45

Post by electriczigjam »

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…

I don't think this has anything to do with kodi, kodi does not seem to have a browser or allows running external applications, you can instead run kodi as an app on this

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#46

Post by LeoPanthera »

electriczigjam wrote: post #45
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…

I don't think this has anything to do with kodi, kodi does not seem to have a browser or allows running external applications, you can instead run kodi as an app on this

I'm sure you could run Kodi on top of this, but then it would be just as restricted as any other app, and not be able to do the things I mentioned compared to running it directly via something like LibreELEC.

Kodi can actually run third party apps, for what it's worth: https://kodi.tv/addons/matrix/

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#47

Post by electriczigjam »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #46
electriczigjam wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this has anything to do with kodi, kodi does not seem to have a browser or allows running external applications, you can instead run kodi as an app on this

I'm sure you could run Kodi on top of this, but then it would be just as restricted as any other app, and not be able to do the things I mentioned compared to running it directly via something like LibreELEC. Kodi can actually run third party apps, for what it's worth: https://kodi.tv/addons/matrix/

But kodi is still an application with addons, Kodi is not going to allow you to run native applications on top of it

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#49

Post by jacknews »

Does it have widevine for netflix etc al, and hardware media acceleration?

I tried using an rpi4 as a media player a few months ago, and it was simply not fast enough, although one reason is I could not get HVEC hardware acceleration to work. I reverted back to using an old T430 laptop with a broken screen and k/b, which is ideal for 1080p.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen

#50

Post by jaimex2 »

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?

He's talking about the embedded Kodi derivatives. (CoreElec, OpenElec, LibreElec etc)

They run their own audio stack.

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