PinePhone software progress: Phosh's App Drawer, Video Acceleration, Kasts and more

It's been almost two months since my last video, and to ease me into making videos again I figured it would be a good time to highlight some recent developments, all on my good old Arch Linux ARM (https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases) install.

Links: PinePhone keyboard - my dumb hack: https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/70e4e4bb-291e-42eb-aca7-804763e839ff Backcover: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4548120 - Thanks again to tencars for the gift!

Phosh 0.12 and its App Drawer refinement https://linmob.net/phosh-0-12-app-drawer/

Accelerated video playback:

• Brian Daniel's post http://briandaniels.me/2021/07/06/hardware-accelerated-video-playback-on-the-pinephone-with-clapper.html
• Clapper: https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/
• My flatpak manifest: https://framagit.org/1peter10/flatpaks
• Linux-Sunxi Wiki: Cedrus https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-Cedrus

Kasts

• Repository https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts
• Plasma Mobile July Update https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/20/plasma-mobile-gear-21-07/

Signal clients:

• Overview https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=signal&s[]=signal
• gurk https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs

Megapixels: https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels/refs/

modRana:

• Homepage https://modrana.org/trac
• GitHub https://github.com/M4rtinK/modrana
• PKGBUILD https://framagit.org/linmobapps/pkgbuilds/-/tree/main/modrana-git

Make sure to check out my blog (https://linmob.net) and the App List (https://linmobapps.frama.io)!

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction: PinePhone Keyboard 00:25 What this is about 00:50 New feature in Phosh 01:38 Hardware accelerated video playback 04:46 Kasts, Plama Mobile's great podcast client 05:48 Soon: Signal clients 06:20 Megapixels: Better performance, fixed preview colors 06:52 App recommendation: modRana 07:38 Conclusion and outlook ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4RC3Miuo2A