. And players that want to avoid the issue can use the Steam Machine’s DisplayPort 1.4 output, which supports even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1 (and which can be converted to an HDMI signal with a simple dongle).
So, ship with a dongle.
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skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
At this point just make an “adapter” that captures the disaply port signal and outputs it from a “supported” device
. And players that want to avoid the issue can use the Steam Machine’s DisplayPort 1.4 output, which supports even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1 (and which can be converted to an HDMI signal with a simple dongle).
So, ship with a dongle.
Doesn’t the system driver need to support the standard?
That’s what I’m saying, it would be more complicated than a dongle, the PS5 has some sorta system that handles this, it would essientally be a device that supports it, that just decodes and encodes the video feed, as dumb as this sounds it’d the only soluations to use on most TVs
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
At this point stop using HDMI