More on miracast support

[Robert Moskowitz]

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 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?
> 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.