forgot to make an update: the GTK4 port got merged - and now that yelp 49 has been tagged, it is officially a part of GNOME 49 :tada:

the content is styled in another component, so it still looks a bit dated by comparison... but maybe that's a task to tackle for GNOME 50 ;)

and in case you're wondering what the button next to the display does:

https://cloud.dissonant.dev/s/d69og23Ni9AjS4N

it opens a panel with a LOT of buttons.

silly me, i've gone this entire thread without uploading any pictures of this thing! here it is, in all its glory: the Blaupunkt RTV-920!

...here in its still half-disassembled state, with the side panels taken off. i don't want to screw the lid back on just yet, in case something breaks... this thing hasn't been used in well over a decade, i'd rather keep an eye on the electronics.

the bodge wires are factory, afaict; i found a video of someone else showing the insides and the wires seem to be the exact same.

the display is actually red and *teal*, but for some reason my phone's camera captures it as light blue instead

vcr update: it lives 🎉

i replaced the broken capacitor on the board, plugged it in and... it works! one tape i tested with had some weird artifacting, but another worked just fine, so i guess the first one was just weird or i need to tweak some settings or something.

so far, i've noticed one fault with it - the euro/SCART connector does not output a video signal. i can't connect to composite since they use ~~some weird proprietary connector (...i'd have to do some digging on what it is - maybe someone on fedi will know? image below)~~ (probably BNC?). luckily s-video works, and i'm using it with my easycap. audio works perfectly fine as well, both via the euro/scart connector (i have an adapter from scart to composite) and via the dedicated audio out