On 06/26/2014 08:24 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 24, 2014 8:26 AM, "Robert Moskowitz"
>>>>> <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> 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. :-(
But with all that WiFi Alliance and their members are doing in rolling
out miracast in a lot of product.