[maemo-developers] [ANNOUNCE] TV out control home plugin

[From: Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:13:47PM +0100, Thomas Perl wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> 2011/1/13 Ville Syrjälä <syrjala at sci.fi>:
> > The only unfortunate issue is that some combinations of settings simply
> > don't work. Usually it just leads to a black TV out signal. That's
> > caused by the display driver disabling the overlay used for TV out,
> > when some hardware limitations would be exceeded.
> 
> Yes, I've noticed that. Is this a limitation of the N900's hardware,
> and independent of the connected device?

Yeah hw limitation, although the checks in the display driver are
a bit off actually. So it's possible the driver may reject some
settings that should be OK, and it's also possible it might allow
some settings that aren't really guaranteed to work.

> If so, we can probably get
> the parameters via trial-and-error and disable non-working
> combinations in the UI.

We can't really do that. Whether or not some settings work also
depends on the size of the input picture, and with videos the
input size can be pretty much anything.

> But right now, it's not that big of a problem,
> as one can just pull back the scale value until the picture comes
> back.

Yep.

> 
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:36:54AM +0100, Thomas Perl wrote:
> >> Would you care
> >> about packaging it up and uploading it to Extras? If you need help,
> >> just tell me, and I can assist with packaging and uploading.
> >
> > I'm too lazy to bother with packaging and whatever else is needed to
> > upload it somewhere. I would prefer if someone else could take care
> > of such things.
> 
> Done. Uploaded to Extras-Devel. I'm unable to create a Merge Request,
> so you can just grab the latest commit from this repo if you want to
> merge it:
> 
> http://gitorious.org/maemo-tvout-control/thps-maemo-tvout-control

Nice. Thanks.

Apparently I unticked the merge request feature without realizing it
might actually be useful :) I re-enabled it now, in case there's more
stuff to merge in the future.

Anyways, your stuff is now merge into my repo.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
syrjala at sci.fi
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/