Re: More on miracast support

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On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 07:14 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > We are expecting to see a presentation of some work done on Miracast at
> > the Wireless Networking mini-conference that is part of the Linux
> > Plumber's Conference in Düsseldorf in October.
> > 
> > See you there?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 11:14 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> I am in the WiFi Alliance Automotive group session.  It is clear that
> >> the car infotainment system will be using Miracast to all your phones,
> >> ipads, and such to display their content on the car screens.  Example
> >> might be a NAV app.
> >> 
> >> So if we want Fedora tablets to play in this game, we do need to get
> >> Miracast working.  And no, I do not have the bandwidth and more so the
> >> experience to support such an effort...
> >> 
> >> On 06/24/2014 02:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > On 06/24/2014 01:32 PM, JD wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Fred Erickson
> >> > > <fredferickson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Jun 24, 2014 8:26 AM, "Robert Moskowitz"
> >> > > <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I am at the WiFi Alliance meeting and all the room projectors
> >> > > have miracast as the perfered projecting method.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > So I go looking for miracast and fedora via google and got a
> >> > > few hits, mostly looking for support!
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > one project saying that Fedora 20 is 'too old'.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > So is there any work for miracast support?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I found the link below on Wikipedia.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/miracle
> >> > > 
> >> > > 
> >> > > Seems like this project has the potential to open a big hole
> >> > > into a system's security and user's privacy :) :)
> >> > > 
> >> > 
> >> > Oh, of course!  WiFi Alliance is all about making things EASY.
> >> > 
> >> > Safe?  Well maybe.  Of course this is probably worst than VNC, at
> >> > least showing all around you what is on your screen.
> >> > 
> >> > But sometimes in meetings you kind of need it.  :(
> >> > 
> >> > Now I have to build a system to do builds on.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> 
> > 
> 
> I just watched google i/o 2014 keynote, and noticed when talking about 
> chromecast, that google had 'developed their own protocol'.  I guess that means 
> they are not using miracast?

AFAIK, that is true -- they are not using Miracast. :-(

-- 
John W. Linville		Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a
linville@xxxxxxxxxx			bad supper. -- Sir Francis Bacon


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