More on miracast support

[John W. Linville]

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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

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