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theothernt / AerialViews

A screensaver for Android TV devices including Nvidia Shield, Fire TV, and Chromecast with Google TV. Inspired by Apple TV's video screensaver.
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Custom brightness #179

Open martinml opened 3 weeks ago

martinml commented 3 weeks ago

I have a Sony OLED TV. From the factory, it includes the Living Decor app, which is more or less a bunch of pretty screensavers in the same spirit of Aerial Views... but very limited in their selection and quality.

However, it has a feature that is killer for me: it allows to lower the brightness of the screensavers to a set percentage. This is very useful in an OLED TV since it lowers the power consumption to a minimum (I've measured changes of ~200W->60W in this TV) and increases the lifespan of the panel. It's a screensaver after all, right? :smile:

Could a setting like this be implemented in Aerial Views? Maybe with an Effect? :thinking:

theothernt commented 3 weeks ago

This is something I've been thinking about, but my idea is a lot simpler, as it has to apply to videos and photos - I can place a black layer on top of the content, then allow the user to adjust its transparency - that should have the same effect?

martinml commented 3 weeks ago

Ah, I didn't think about photos. That would definitely work for my use case! :+1:

theothernt commented 3 weeks ago

As I'm just looking at the code now, that's a relatively small change so that'll be in the next update - probably due in 2 or 3 weeks.

theothernt commented 3 weeks ago

Also - make sure your videos are set to HEVC and not Dolby Vision as the DV videos are a lot brighter.