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Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.

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[–] 26 points 11 months ago (4 children)

DisplayPort to HDMI adapters are quite cheap and don't add latency.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Aside from practicality, might there be something that gets lost if you do this? (e.g. worse frame rate, quality or sth. else)

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    No, DisplayPort, DVI-D and HDMI use fundamentally the same protocol, HDMI just adds DRM which requires active adapters when one plugs in a HDMI source into a DisplayPort sink. DisplayPort to HDMI conversions are completely lossless and don't add latency AFAIK.

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