More on miracast support

[Neal Becker]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Jun 24, 2014 8:26 AM, "Robert Moskowitz"
>> > > <rgm at 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?