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That's dedicated to the PS3. I'm not sure my TV requires the same transcodes. Most of the servers I've used detect what sort of devices are on my network, and theoretically transcode specifically for them. But they've all fallen short, bar Serviio, in some formats/codecs for the TV at least. I haven't thoroughly tried testing with anything else other than the TouchPad, and it supports pretty much jackshit.
I'd love to fall in love with WebOS, but some developers have to do so first, and I mean *love*. Like, I mean, free apps. I don't want to spend money in the courtship period--I want to be convinced of a sufficient software base available for free, and then I pay for the perks.
I'm pessimistic about its future, more than I was before I had one.
And it's a nifty OS, to the limited degree I've found the apps useful.
It may be dedicated to the PS3, but it certainly served content just fine to my LG Blu-Ray player. I don't know much about it, admittedly.
I'd have to install it to see if my TV would even pick it up. If I have time this weekend.
Maybe TVMobili? Not free, but looks flexible and may be worth it for you.
I'd be happy to answer questions. MacOS and iOS development is a lot of fun.
I'll give TVMobili a try this weekend, Gris, thanks.
I have a Lytro question.
Now, it's not just that you don't need to focus anymore, and it takes care of that for you after the fact. But what I'm not sure about is that I'm used to sometimes exercising precise control over the depth of field of my photographs. And I know (well, not with the DSLR's preview anymore, sadly), how much I'm gonna get, from where. How can I tell with the Lytro camera how deep I will be getting?
Presumably, you can set that in post, too.
I haven't seen that in any of the articles or documentation yet, though. I was wondering if anyone had read anything I hadn't. It just says fixed aperture and bob's yer uncle. And the examples of the "live" pictures weren't much help. You click, and the ranges of depths of field across photos vary so much I can't tell how the photographer would be predicting them.
If everything is in focus and everything is out of focus, you can make the DOF as wide or narrow as you want, I'm guessing.
I guess the apps have more control than what I've seen so far. I mean, that I'm getting the somewhat parsed product.
TVMobili installed like a dream, but my TV can't see it as a DLNA server. I will look into this tomorrow and see if it does serve content to Samsung TVs. It doesn't seem to serve to the WebOS pad so far, but that's the only mobile device I've yet tried.