• cevn@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

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

    • BioAnalyzer@feddit.de
      12·
      10 months ago

      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

    • spaduf@slrpnk.net
      22·
      10 months ago

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

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    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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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    10 months ago

    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.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

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

      • Vincent
        5·
        10 months ago

        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
      1·
      10 months ago

      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.

        • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 months ago

          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.