HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
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For three years there has been a bug report around 4K@120Hz being unavailable via HDMI 2.1 on the AMD Linux driver.

The wait continues…

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
    68·
    9 months ago

    HDMi foundation is founded by companies who own the home theatre environement (mainly movie conpanies and television) who puts DRM on HDMI to make it harder to illegally copy content like movies, ao they will always want to be anti open source because thats the request of streaming services/movie businesses. Its why for example, mobile devices have widevine levels. those levels basically determine how “unlocked” the device is and services will refuse to offer full functionality to unlocked devices because of it, be it audio or video.

    Members of VESA, who control the displaypprt standard are generally computer companies are mostly not in the business of media, so they value specs over drm on changes, which for example a use case is that displayport allows for daisychaining diaplays.

    • nivenkos@lemmy.world
      36·
      9 months ago

      The DRM is so stupid - now in the era of streaming you can get literally anything webripped day1.

      DRM is obsolete (and it never really wasn’t tbh).

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
        12·
        9 months ago

        its the attempt that matters more to investors than the pirates. its why a shit ton of games have denuvo, evem if the version of denuvo they utilized is cracked already or not. its not there for the end user, its there for the investors to show they are at least attempting to fight off piracy.

        • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
          61·
          9 months ago

          Denuvo is actually very effective relatively speaking. Several popular games that use it have never been cracked. They haven’t made it impossible, just sufficiently difficult and tedious that no one wants to bother.

          • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
            5·
            9 months ago

            some aren’t cracked because theres like only one person actually doing it, and said person wont crack anime games because she hates anime.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Isn’t DRM in games working though. Denuvo only being cracked by one person, to me it sounds like a win for the corporations.

          • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
            1·
            9 months ago

            it’s working in the sense that i slows it down. However how denuvo works is that there are usually are generations of denuvo that get cracked, so once one gets cracked in a generation, theres a handful that will be cracked with it. if a company is using an older generation of denuvo, you may typically see day 1 cracks, which ultimately means the company paid denuvo for nothing, but the point is, denuvo wasn’t meant to stop piracy first, it was meant to appease investors that require denuvo to be implemented.

    • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      9 months ago

      I don’t know a single person who has ever used HDMI to steal copyrighted content. Seriously? Who would rip a 2 hr move by watching it vs the 10 min it takes to rip a movie digitally.

      Like shit ya got CAM, WebRIP, BRRIP and SCENE. I doubt HDMI was used in any of these scenarios.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
        9·
        9 months ago

        technically speaking, every gamer who capture cards to bypass when games on PlayStation has an explicit mode that disables built in recording when a cutscene is active is an example.