Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns

Emphrath

Hardware acceleration.

trwidick

Keneda

@trwidick
Like for decoding videos in media player or on websites like youtube i believe ^^

trwidick

@keneda A agree this can be very Important. I use youtube at work everyday. No better way to find a teardown of a laptop that needs a new motherboard or jack replaced. I wish i could code our problems away, but i do not code. The pixel 3a i think has hardware encoding, youtube works quite well, with out buffering, or skipping frames I might be wrong tho.

Keneda

@trwidick no device under uTouch has hardware decoding working for now, as where the GPU decoding feature is directly used for that purpose.

But devices with enough CPU power can decode without GPU acceleration help, wich is software decoding.

In fact any device can, but some you'll have to stay on SD, where some other will allow HD 720 or 1080p without problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration

trwidick

@keneda Thank you, I did not know that no UT device did not have Hardware decoding.

dobey

@magnargj said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

protonmail bridge or similar, generic solution

A webapp should work fine for that, and you can use Webber to make it a bookmark on your device. Their client app is also now open source, so it should be possible instead to create a proper application rather than using the odd bridge thing.

dobey

@keneda Well, nothing has hardware decoding working in browser. There is some fixes where hardware rendering of video can be done, on some devices, but I think it's not merged yet.

Android devices do have accelerated decoding in mediaplayer app, though, through the hybris plug-in for gstreamer we use.

magnargj

@dobey indeed, that is what I'm doing now. But getting those e-mails into dekko would be nice too. I saw someone had done this on mobian, but it was a bit too involved/complicated for me...

I didn't know it was open, maybe we'll see an app eventually

Keneda

@dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

Well, nothing has hardware decoding working in browser.

When you say nothing, you mean on PC too ?

dobey

@keneda Nothing in the context of running Ubuntu Touch on phones. I don't know if the ffmpeg stuff does hardware decoding on PCs or not, but I think probably it doesn't either.

Keneda

@dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

Nothing in the context of running Ubuntu Touch on phones.

OK that's clearer ^^

I don't know if the ffmpeg stuff does hardware decoding on PCs or not, but I think probably it doesn't either.

I imagine you talks here about GNU/Linux PC, because as i remember, on windows, GPU is used in webbrowsers (that's why i was confused by the "nothing").

dobey

@keneda Well, yes, GPU is used in Linux by browsers too, at least for rendering acceleration. Using hardware decoding if available, in Linux, has always been trickier because it's not something drivers tend to provide, for example, and AFAIK GStreamer and other things don't have decent detection or handling of such things.

Emphrath

@dobey I have extensively used ffmpeg for livestreaming, and with the correct flags, you can force hardware decoding on some architectures, and it drastically decreases cpu usage

Fuseteam

@moem sure that can be done......by someone from the community most contributors have their hands full hehe. as said the source for the docs is on github; anyone can contribute more to the docs from there it's made out of mostly markdown files iirc so it shouldn't be too diffy to get into

Moem

@fuseteam said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns:

@moem sure that can be done......by someone from the community

No need to at me, that is exactly what I had in mind. The next time someone comes up and says 'I want to help, what can I do?' this is one of the things we can point them towards. It's nice because there is no coding experience needed.

Fuseteam

yeah definitely coding is once facet of the work that has to be done hehe

cregox

@dobey in portugal, MMS costs 30 cents.

not being able to use MMS is a bonus for me.

and pulsesms can do groups without MMS.

cregox

i wished all phones would run linux instead of f******~~google~~ android.

and global 2g + 3g would be free, accessible everywhere. i don't need 4g or any higher.

phone calls and MMS should obviously be free as well, world wide. charge premium for voice quality, video, etc.

more to the topic, i wished that smartphones could be turned into "feature" phones, with:

last longing battery
an emergency physical button to call pre defined contacts, including cell tower emergency
12cm (4 inches) screen at most
light and small enough that it wouldn't break when falling

i would keep a 23cm screen one as a backup phone + powerbank ultrabook with screen projection on the other pocket, with the exact same os, everything synced... but only because i work with tech.

everyone would have 2 phones.

Lakotaubp

@cregox Please do not use swear words in your posts. We try and keep this a family friendly place for people of all ages and nationalities. I have taken the liberty to edit your post slightly. Thanks for your understanding.

Edit: Forgot to add this. We follow the Ubuntu code of conduct https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct