@nmalinoski: I'm probably among those who've said more features = higher price, the most.
Yet not everything you do in a modified or new design will have the same cost at the end.
I mean you're the ones mentioning the FrameMeister like an hypothetic OSSC v*.* or mk2 whatever would be the same machine, not me, that's not what I have in mind nor what I'd want, nor much people thought about when they mentioned things like that frame buffer idea.
Adding a switchable buffer mode only for output<>display compatibility might not be the same as seeking to feature 'full scaling capabilities'.
That and more like, 'yokotate', real deinterlacing, then other processing features, whatever, we're talking about different things, one after the other, it's not ONE single scenario, therfore not a single complexity and cost scenario either I believe.
Only marqs would be able to speak on possible reasonable designs routes, but surely he doesn't speak much on that topic (or he already did but the thread's old and big) so he won't have yet more people after him begging for features. :p
Anyway, would he in the future venture in adding features/specs that compare with the FM's other fields of competence, no doubt he would do so only rationally and reasonably...yet for what's doable, still do it better.
After reading about what's coming for the next FW I think the device's gone much further than I had imagined it would, a number of additional suggested improvements are listed on the wiki (damn someone please scratch that mention of 'Scale2x/Super Eagle' it makes me sick lol)
There's definitely not everything we've mentioned in that list, but if it was updated/expanded surely some things would be in the realm of 'mmh...maybe' or 'maybe doable at some cost' or even 'please wake up'
bobrocks95 wrote:Samsung's 2018 TVs supported VRR when HDMI 2.1 transmitter chips were not yet available. So the OSSC hardware should support it- software is the big question. The HDMI spec could make it as simple as setting a flag, or it could be a complete black box that requires an HDMI license to even know where to start.
People who got 'FreeSync' or similar behaviour working on certain displays didn't actually make it work as 'it' iirc (haven't followed everything but it was funny), and that wasn't exactly easy nor working universally at all (outcome was that it made both AMD and nVidia look bad for a moment)
I doubt HDMI will have left the doors of their tech wide open anyway, black box and limitations sounds more like them.