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Re: OT: Streaming

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: OT: Streaming
Date 2025-01-09 23:12 -0500
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On Thu, 1/9/2025 10:18 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 1/9/2025 7:37 PM, Paul wrote:
> 
>> Apparently, enabling some kind of debugging mode can affect the results.
>>
>> https://xdaforums.com/t/turning-on-usb-debugging-will-lose-your-devices-widevine-l1.4626703/
>>
> 
>    Debugging USB? I don't know what that would be. But I suspect
> widevine is a red herring. As I mentioned, I've used 3 computers,
> 3 operating systems and different versions of 2 browsers. They all
> fail. Yet Netflix works in Firefox on Win7 with no special treatment.
> 
>> It's a cracking factory out there. At least everyone has a hobby.
>> It gives people something to do.
> 
>   It has occurred to me that these companies might be trying to
> block computers/browsers for some reason related to security.
> But a browser is actually the only method they offer on computers.
> The other option is apps on "mobile". Could it be possible that they
> want to force apps but don't want to admit it? We have an iPad,
> though I don't know how I'd pipe from the iPad to the TV. I'm
> certainly not going to watch movies on a 5"x8" screen.
> 

They have their own "in-house" solutions which might be a
bit self-serving.

   https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/ipad/ipadf1276cde/ipados

Apparently a DisplayLink HDMI adapter doesn't function on the thing,
like it would elsewhere. Some of these USB to HDMI, they actually had
a CDROM section and composite device inside the USB chip, and
PC x86 drivers would load every time you plugged in such an adapter.

This would not work to make the Apple device love the chip. And even
if you find a .ko to do the job,  I think there's still some technical
issues to overcome (that DisplayLink can't fix without a blessing being
bestowed upon them).

It's probably faster to use a magnifying glass and pretend the screen
is bigger :-)

And remember, I've been to the ecosystem. And I've returned. There
are three Apple boxes on this desk. They hold up the other computers
(like they were "stands"). I once lost $1000 on a video card purchase
for an Apple computer, because the DMA circuit on the Nubus card
did not span all the RAM on the machine, and this caused the video
driver to crash the machine. Does that ever happen on Windows ? Fuck no.
You could say then, that I have a few battle scars from my experience,
and if I seem to be unfair to the ecosystem, there are reasons for
my answers. At one time, they were a struggling underdog of
a company. Now, they're fat cats sitting on a pile of cash,
and their old habits of "in-housing every solution" has
not stopped.

If your iPad has one of the higher speed interfaces, then the
odds improve on some display standard being multiplexed on
the device output. But then, how many displays have inputs
for such signals (without a Dock to do a conversion). And
the Dock could be relatively expensive compared to what
you paid for the iPad. I used to be able to get a VGA adapter
for a PC here, for about $25 of so. And I have a handful of those
for problem solving. The chippery inside a Dock, isn't as cheap.

   Paul

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OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-05 23:21 -0500
  Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-06 08:36 -0500
    Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-06 10:45 -0500
      Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-06 18:38 -0500
        Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-06 19:33 -0500
        Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-08 12:14 -0500
          Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-08 13:58 -0500
          Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-08 14:02 -0500
            Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-08 14:51 -0500
              Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-08 18:16 -0500
              Re: OT: Streaming Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 22:27 +0000
                Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-09 22:12 -0500
                Re: OT: Streaming Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 16:23 +0000
                Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-10 11:57 -0500
                Re: OT: Streaming Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 17:12 +0000
              Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-09 19:37 -0500
                Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-09 22:18 -0500
                Re: OT: Streaming Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-09 23:12 -0500
                Re: OT: Streaming Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-10 09:17 -0500

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