LG SmartTV and WebOS hacks

The LG SmartTV has an operating system installed, just like a personal computer. The one on my laptop is Windows 10 Pro.
I also have one of the many 'flavors' of Linux installed inside the Windows operating system.
The one on my Apple cell phone is iOS.
The one on my Raspberry Pi is 'Raspbian Buster', before that, 'Raspbian Stretch' was resident.
The one on the TV is WebOS.

That operating system is used by LG for many devices. I also have an LG washing machine with wifi capability using that operating system.

The system was made open source some time ago. That means, interested people can contribute to the evolution of the software, or make a spin-off of the own.

I'm considering the options available using a custom build of the software.
I hope to make saving video data for future viewing opssible. Some LG models have/had a recorder on board. My model does not. The Sony Betamax law lets people make copies of electonic media for which they have legal access.

I can do that on my laptop using a screen capture software. I have made some trials. The speed of the laptop is important in determining how well the recording process goes.I tried recording the 1935 film version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, but the video was slightly and intermittently jerky.
From what I've read since then, there are tweaks that may allow me to make smoothly playing recordings usng a screen recorder.

There are several hacked verisons of the WebOS operating system. Once I figure out how to avoid locking up my SmartTV, I may attempt to install one or two. It would be nice to save a video from the TV, to a hard drive connected to a USB port.


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