The problem is not the video at all. Kobo did their job on it. (And I guess the customer support actually meant the GPU, the graphics processor, which pratically isn't enabled at all.)
My problem with Netflix is that they won't let me choose the version that works + they push out an update every two weeks that just breaks things. DRM can be a great thing if you know how to handle it.
However, as this is still the thread about software;
ScriptManager is my favorite root app.
http://androiddev.orkitra.com/downlo...=scriptmanager (There is gscript as well:
http://code.google.com/p/gscript-android/) A reason why everyone here will love it is that you can lower the screen brightness far more with root access.
The following line will lower the screen brightness to total (still visibile) minimum:
echo 7 >/sys/devices/platform/pwm-backlight.0/backlight/pwm-backlight.0/brightness
The other app, SMWidgets, can put one-tap-widgets on the homescreen. If you have automatic brightness enabled, enable the script after you turn your reading light off (i.e. your girfriend goes to sleep...) If you turn on the light again, the sensor will change the brightness back to what it thinks is best. On my mobile I could also turn the button light off, but I haven't found where on the kobo.
And I think I have tested the OpenVPN module enough to put it here.
https://rapidshare.com/files/4125878..._tun.ko.tar.gz Get the module, extract it, root the Kobo, get Friedrich Schäuffle's OpenVPN apps here:
http://androiddev.orkitra.com/downlo...search=openvpn, and Busybox here:
http://androiddev.orkitra.com/downlo...search=busybox
A detailed howto is here (read the whole thing please before getting to it):
There are just a few things that I have to add:
Step 6: when you copy your VPN keys, copy the tun.ko to the same folder.
Common problems: check 'Load tun kernel module' and in 'TUN module settings' choose insmod for loading and set the path where you copied the module, i.e. /sdcard/vpn/tun.ko
http://vpnblog.info/android-openvpn-strongvpn.html