[mythtv-users] ECS Liva for frontend - brief report

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
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> Basically this is all to do with hotplugging code. The video drivers are
> basically too smart and re-evaluate everything every time they detect a
> change on the display feeds, which is not what most people want.

Actually, I think "most" people want (and even expect) hotplug to work, and
for their chosen application to adjust automagically to changes.  But those
with presentation devices (TV, projector, etc.) that do not provide a consistent
EDID even when "off" should nominally be capable of setting their driver
config appropriately, or, if that is not possible due to driver limitations, one
can obtain hardware EDID "spoofers" that are commonly available in the
home theatre market to solve this very problem by making the video card
(or your A/V receiver) always see a constant presentation device (the really
fancy ones even come with a (usually Windows based) GUI programming
tool that does not require one to read the specs and use a hex editor on
the binary file).