Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals

Re:Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live v... by ehutch79 on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:22PM (#29628037)

Because most of these displays look like monitors to your system. Using the existing rendering pipelines to a full screen monitor is far easier, and less expensive then custom hardware just to move pixels that the built in graphics card is more than capable of

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Re:Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live v... by chrisseaton on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:25PM (#29628075)

Ok so it's a quick hack for video output but they're going to run into problems like this. And for example any notifications, system updates, Launchpad, whatever, would also appear. That's how you end up with goofy things like a sign with a Windows 'need to update now' message. If they were doing it properly with a production video output they wouldn't have this problem.

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Re:Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live v... by jaywalk on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:37PM (#29628251)

You can call it a "quick hack" if you'd like, but I can assure you that all of the potential pitfalls you mention are taken into account by the people who setup and run these systems.

You're not going to "gotcha!" people who have actually done this stuff.

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