More on miracast support

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 06/25/2014 12:54 PM, 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?

Probably not.  Jewish holidays are late this year.  I will not be able 
to attend WiFi Alliance the week of Oct 12.  I will be in Rome week of 
Oct 26 for IoT360.

>
> 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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