Info-beamer hosted OS 14 release thread

Released testing 240828-69d35d:

  • [Pi4/5] Potentially slightly faster boot time
  • [Pi4/5] Reduce memory usage when playing more than one HEVC video.
  • [Pi4/5] Reworked internal frame buffer handling. Prevents flickering in rare cases and fixes an incorrect API assumption regarding video textures: Turns out one has to use individual DMA handles per plane and not a single dumb buffer containing all planes, as that results in DMA file descriptors being closed too soon.
  • [Pi4/5] info-beamer now supports non-blocking DRM commits as well as asynchronious snapshotting. But unused at the moment, but could be interesting. See this thread.
  • [Pi5] Potential support for hardware sleeping: Powers down the Pi and wakes it up X seconds later. Could maybe be used to deep sleep if nothing is scheduled. But of course a Pi is then offline until the scheduled date and no amount of dashboard changes will wake it up before that.
  • [Pi4] Reduce memory usage when playing H264 videos.
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