Posts by madmanmoon

  • Dolby Vision Hardware Support With Intel A40 A50 GPUs ( x86 )

    Hi,

    Thought that I would ask this as as the product pages for the Intel 'pro' cards have (since inception) long indicated hardware decoding for Dolby Vision.

    Intel A40 | Intel A50

    So, I would wonder if there's a future which sees them enter into the equation with the LibreELEC x86 builds.

    I am specifically asking in LibreELEC as it is its own just enough linux OS, and is not Windows running an application.


    Asking with all humility and no expectation or entitlement to a response. :)

    Further Details

    Extra tidbits:

    • I recognise that x86 is a minefield of compatibility and woe 8o
    • I recognise that there are ways of making Windows 'handle' Dolby Vision, but to my mind that is not true native handling, and is not what I'm asking about
    • I thought it something worth mentioning as hardware support for DV on X86 thus far has really been the staple of a few laptops
    • If you dig fully you will note that the cards both decode and encode Dolby Vision

    Thinking aloud, I wonder with the new KODI builds if this is just a matter of ensuring that any Intel Arc Pro linux drivers have the Dolby Vision support.:/

  • Import emulationstation + RetroArch Setup From RetroPie IMG (rpi4)

    Long time listener, first time caller, hieeee! 👋

    I'm asking purely out of curiosity, here, and I'm not expecting (nor feel entitled to) any response, but thought it worth asking if anyone else has attempted similar within LibreELEC, as I've been very impressed with the nightly build I took yesterday for HDR video playback, and would like to have a more full system. So:

    Can I import settings/config, etc, for es frontend with ra backend from a bespoke retropie IMG?

    OK, so, in a bit more detail ... let's say I had a fully setup RetroPie IMG with a perfect Emulation Station frontend running on a RetroArch backend for cores, etc, on my pi4b.

    Let's pretend I had that.

    Let's imagine it.

    If I were to plop Gamestarter on my beautiful, new, nightly LibreELEC build (which I want as the base due to how awesome the HDR playback has become), and then install both emulationstation and retropie ... could I conceivably import the setup from the retropie image?

    I am aware that some key settings would need to be changed, and I can power through that (in terms of pointing at different install folders, or different AV hardware settings) and I would imagine that will take a fair bit of wrangling. But feasibly, is it possible?

    extra nonsense if you can be bothered, but it's just noise, really

    The only reason I ask is that 99.99999% of all emulator setups (incl. es/ra) are an absolute FIEND to setup properly, and I'm not even talking about controllers and audio/video stuff. I'm talking working rom-sets, bios', thumbnails, videos, which cores work, which ones don't, all that horrific non-sense. If I have a rock solid build elsewhere (again, can't stress this enough, irrespective of hardware/OS level stuff) for these things, that should be relatively transferrable, right?