heftig

A BR disc contains much more than just video data. The BR player device contains user-hostile functionality.

For example, firmware updates for various parts of DRM, like HDCP key revocation lists, are distributed with commercial BR discs.

Your playback setup could become permanently broken because you inserted the wrong movie and now your player refuses to send a video signal to your TV, or it suddenly stops accepting discs it did before.

It’s about adding API to Vulkan for access to the hardware encoding units that you’re complaining about.

Cross-platform, I guess. However, the only platform of commercial interest (and that I know of) that offers Vulkan as the primary, supported API is Android.

Only iPads.

It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn’t really solve our problem.

Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

Do you have a source for this? AFAICT this is untrue. Mono audio using just the white connector exists, but this depends on configuration and does not make the red connector a difference signal.