Re: [tlug] using a TV as 4k display

[Francois Cartegnie <fcartegnie@example.com>]

Le 02/09/2015 10:35, Christian Horn a écrit :
> Miracast is the wireless protocol to transfer HDMI over wlan,
> yet on Linux it's far from usable: has only been reported to 
> work on Linux on one certain wlan chip.  No activity in the 
> related projects either.

Miracast is not HDMI, and as I remember, uses a restricted set of codecs.

> The TV is able to display 4k video files offered via DLNA,
> a kind of multimedia oriented file streaming protocol.
> 
> Idea: it might be possible to have Linux show a 4k screen,
> encode that like a video (one of the transport stream formats,
> so the displaying code does not seek to the end of the file)
> and then offer this via DLNA to the TV.

Realtime non hw accelerated 4K encoding on cpu ? Good luck :)
Use mpeg ts or ps as container.

Francois