GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols (www.phoronix.com)
from KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 25 Jan 2024 19:02
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 25 Jan 2024 19:05 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire.

Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software.

The v0.91 release also has various bug fixes and updated translations.

GNOME Network Displays 0.91.0 ============================= * Add support for Miracast over Infrastructure (MICE) protocol (@lorbus) * Add support for Chromecast protocol (@kyteinsky) * Add support for casting a virtual screen (@NaheemSays) * Fix various issues * Add/update various translations The MICE support had been under review for two years.

This has been successfully tested to stream to an LG WebOS smart TV over Ethernet and WiFi.

MICE allows for Miracast over LAN rather than using WiFi Direct.


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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2024 19:15 next collapse

Huge

terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 25 Jan 2024 19:26 next collapse

Finally. Was something I’ve missed when I was using other distros with kde.

gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com on 25 Jan 2024 20:22 next collapse

Now it just needs PIN support

ViciousTurducken@lemmy.one on 25 Jan 2024 22:27 next collapse

Can it cast to a Roku device?

Matt@lemdro.id on 25 Jan 2024 23:07 collapse

Roku supports Miracast, so it should work.

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jan 2024 22:40 next collapse

Great!

Is it something which is gonna be naturally added to Fedora or should I download something specific?

The article wasn’t clear to me or maybe I’m not technical enough.

kib48@lemm.ee on 26 Jan 2024 00:39 next collapse

chromecast is proprietary so it’s likely not gonna be included by default

Vincent@feddit.nl on 26 Jan 2024 05:50 collapse

As long as GND is open source I don’t think that that’s necessarily a problem. Though patents on the Chromecast protocol, if any, might be.

joojmachine@lemmy.ml on 26 Jan 2024 15:31 collapse

You can just download the app from Flathub right now and it should hopefully make its way directly into GNOME in the future. At least some work was being done to implement this directly into it.

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jan 2024 16:26 collapse

Okay then I guess I’ll just wait until it’s directly implemented in GNOME as it might be more stable 👍

joojmachine@lemmy.ml on 26 Jan 2024 16:48 collapse

It seems stable enough already TBH, at least from my small testing with the app. It’s more about getting things ready to be exposed in the settings app and in the system.

cevn@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 2024 23:38 next collapse

I thought chromecast was closed for some reason, what is stopping me from using it standalone for videos on rpi or in KDE?

spaduf@slrpnk.net on 26 Jan 2024 00:26 next collapse

Might just be one of those closed dependencies they have you opt into at install time

BioAnalyzer@feddit.de on 26 Jan 2024 12:15 collapse

AFAIK this only concerns casting TO a chromecast (or miracast) enabled device, which has been possible for a while now (the new part being the support for it in this desktop application), but you can’t make a device a chromecast receiver because that part is proprietary. You can set up your rpi as a miracast receiver or use sunshine/moonlight to stream your whole phone screen / pc monitor to your rpi, but the ability to just press “cast” on your phone and then do whatever else on it while the content plays on your TV is sadly locked behind the proprietary walls of google / apple

cevn@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 2024 17:44 next collapse

Dang, yea that is what I was confused about. Will try the miracast receiver on my pi though.

progandy@feddit.de on 30 Jan 2024 06:14 collapse

There seems to be a receiver available using some tricks github.com/rgerganov/shanocast

youngGoku@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 2024 00:48 next collapse

So can I cast a live twitch stream to my raspberry pi using this?

InFerNo@lemmy.ml on 26 Jan 2024 06:59 collapse

Is this still Wayland only?

KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml on 26 Jan 2024 09:26 collapse

The application will stream the selected monitor if the mutter screencast portal is available. If it is unavailable, a fallback to X11 based frame grabbing will happen. As such, it should work fine in almost all setups.

Source: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays