11-29-2020, 08:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2020, 08:22 PM by Zebulon Walton.)
I have the 11/29 nightly build of Mobian running on my Manjaro Pinephone, booted from a micro-SD card. Overall it's quite stable and surprisingly the phone's voice and SMS functions basically "just worked" with a Tracfone SIM for the AT&T network.
I have ssh server running on it which is great for working from the command line, but it would be nice to also be able to have remote desktop working. On my Debian desktop and laptop systems I normally run x11vnc for this, but since Mobian is using Wayland I assume something else is needed. What's the best choice?
Also I'm noticing that video playback of mp4 files is very choppy. HD videos (1080p) just show a few frames per second. I downconverted some to 480p and those work better but are still far from smooth. To get smooth playback I need to go down to 240p - VHS quality. (Actually on the small Pinephone screen it doesn't look bad!) This happens both with the default video player and VLC. Are there any tweaks that can improve this, or is it just a matter of waiting for further development? (On a related topic, where are default programs like default video player set? I'd like to make VLC the default unless there's a reason not to.)
I have ssh server running on it which is great for working from the command line, but it would be nice to also be able to have remote desktop working. On my Debian desktop and laptop systems I normally run x11vnc for this, but since Mobian is using Wayland I assume something else is needed. What's the best choice?
Also I'm noticing that video playback of mp4 files is very choppy. HD videos (1080p) just show a few frames per second. I downconverted some to 480p and those work better but are still far from smooth. To get smooth playback I need to go down to 240p - VHS quality. (Actually on the small Pinephone screen it doesn't look bad!) This happens both with the default video player and VLC. Are there any tweaks that can improve this, or is it just a matter of waiting for further development? (On a related topic, where are default programs like default video player set? I'd like to make VLC the default unless there's a reason not to.)