They say that they don’t have a minimum speed requirement and the speedtest result doesn’t affect your application. Also considering that they specify that you choose the node geographically closest to you (instead of the lowest latency one) and the only other information in the test is latency, it does sound like they’re either looking for vpns or your location.

IP is quite unreliable when it comes to geolocation, especially if you have a dynamic ip

Their speedtest requirement also seems to be about geolocating you.

Edit: Also would anyone explain why they prefer mp3 to aac and don’t even mention ogg? And what’s the point of uploading both cbr and vbr mp3s? Isn’t it ogg>aac>mp3 vbr>mp3 cbr quality wise?

How is the link file executing malware? Can you put any shell script as the target?

… an html file that loads a video from the api servers. They’re still hosting the videos, no?

Wait so this is an api to… Build piracy streaming websites?? And they claim they’re immune to dmca? Why not just make their own website?

Both run games at 720p

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Looks better than I expected

It’s pretty common for programs to add firewall rules for themselves during setup. If you rely on manually blocking them after the fact they could have called back home already

Or a firewall that doesn’t rely on windows firewall, since programs will just whitelist themselves from it during installation

Infinite captcha loop

I highly doubt it actually works if you didn’t install the vulkan layer. Does the sdr brightness slider have an effect on the game?

You didn’t need to install the vulkan layer and use gamescope?

Edit: if you use gamescope, do you have Nvidia?

See the edit, this wasn’t a Linux issue

Monitor doesn’t have abl. I booted windows to analyse the files and they are dimmer in general than I’d hoped for. See the edit of the post

For games I was trying to launch steam in gamescope but launching just the game didn’t work neither, so I guess that’s nvidia

BTW how did you get the games to work? Gamescope is incredibly unstable for me. If it doesn’t freeze immediately then it either doesn’t change focus to the launched game or freezes on launch. Tried without it but then xwayland eats the hdr and it comes out horrible. Is it nvidia incompatibility?

I did and mpv works in hdr. Monitor can show 1000+ nits according to test video.

I tried the star wars sequels (bluray), kenobi numeralj cut and dune 1 (webdl). Sw and dune’s desert scenes were where I felt something was off and after opening mpv without hdr found out that they were 200-250 nits bright. I could link the torrents if that’s allowed

Tried increasing gamma but it lightened the darks too much so I thought contrast looked better. If I don’t end up calibrating icc or if I don’t like the result I’ll probably give up on any pretense of accuracy and just settle on some combination of contrast/gamma/brightness that looks good.

In my understanding hdr is mostly supported in wayland (the core parts of it anyway) but it’s not finalised so it remains largely unimplemented. Kwin itself can only output hdr to the monitor but can’t get hdr video from programs due to a lack of vulkan support (?). There’s a patched vulkan layer to bridge the gap.

I don’t think that’s the issue but I guess it could be. I’ll try an hdr brightness test video and compare it to the kwin managed sdr brightness slider to see

Edit: Yup it works correctly

Edit 2: I think the vulkan requirement might be just for it to work with hardware acceleration

Yep hdr is supported and enabled. Kde maps the sdr one to the hdr range like any other sdr display element, based on the brightness and color intensity you set in settings. That doesn’t give it more range and the crushed areas stay crushed, but that’s what happens on an sdr output too

Wouldn’t bad calibration affect the hdr and software-mapped sdr equally? As in if there was an issue that causes 300-600 nits to show up as 200 nits or something, wouldn’t that issue also be present in sdr content under hdr with brightness set to those values?

I’ll definitely try that anyways, ty