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Most of the time when the screen goes black, it's not real black, this happens a lot with compressed video.
I've implemented a threshold parameter for this in the next version of boblight, whenever all subpixels of a pixel are below a certain value, the pixel is treated as a black pixel.
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I've already got something like that implemented in boblight, it's based on hue, if for example a part of the screen is blue, and another part is red, the lights will be purple if an averaging algorithm is used, with the median algorithm (that's what I called it) the lights are either blue or red, depending on the dominant hue.
I can't say I like it though.
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I am trying to apply this patch to XBMC. Do I need to apply the last patch or all four of them. Also I tried to apply patch 1 but it gave alot of conflicts.
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hi, you only need to apply the last patch.
if you had conflicts, you probably also changed something else on your source, cause I'm having no conflicts here, when applying the patch. Maybe you should try to check out a clean wc of the trunk and try applying the patch onto that wc, if your problem then still exists, I have to look at the code (but I _really_ can't imagine, that this problem is related to the patch).
Anyway, Im working on a new patch for improved color calculation these days, so maybe you just wanna wait a little and try whether the new patch works out better for you.
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lagwagon667 i sent you a pm i need some help with the watts for the project.
Thanks
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Hi there, just wanted to say that work is in progress right now. I am currently using the HSV color space, to create a histogram over the hue channel, and even with ignoring saturation und value right now, I believe the colors are still better as with the old average method. However, there's still lots of work to do until I can release a new patch, but what I have done so far aims into the right direction, I think.
I'm also implementing a new function based on the pwmcolor python fade / fadeloop etc. functions to change the color smoothly which results in a less prompt reaction to the picture on the screen, but therefore achieves a more calm backlight which is in my opinion more comfortable to watch.
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I got the ikea dioders today. its working great. ill have a video up soon once it gets dark outside. Also Im watching transformers right now and some of the colors are a bit jumpy and dont fit.