[mythtv-users] Chromecast
Nick Rout
nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Jul 31 07:00:56 UTC 2013
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <
> gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> > They don't advertise MPEG2 support, but this would make MythTV support
>> > much more useful (at least with my content).
>>
>> Probably the same reason few phones/tablets support MPEG-2
>> HW decode, in that the chip may be capable of it, but you save
>> a few dollars per device by not licensing it (and you save
>> bandwidth requirements too, which can be important when you
>> are doing things wirelessly).
>>
>> Gary
>
>
> Unfortunately on this page:
>
> https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/
>
> They state, quite clearly:
>
> *Note:* You may not publicly distribute or ship your Google Cast
> application without written permission from Google, per the terms of
> service described below.
>
> And, the big one:
>
> *YOU MAY NOT PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTE CODE CONTAINING THIS SDK OR REFERENCING
> THESE APIs WITHOUT A WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH GOOGLE ALLOWING YOU TO DO SO.*
>
> Basically, no Open Source apps can use the Chromecast APIs. Wasn't Google
> supposed to be the savior of Open Source software???
>
Not to say they won't permit it of course.
On this topic, I can say this python code
https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcastworks for me for sending a youtube
video from my (android) phone to my
laptop, and I haven't experimented further. Using it with --user-agent 'TV'
makes quite an interesting experience.
Next step is to try it on my frontend box, although unfortunately it is
still sitting on Ubuntu 10.04, so some of the python dependencies are not
in the ubuntu repos.
Of course the software I am referring to is a receiver (2nd screen) app,
not a sender or first screen like a mythtv app or control point.
Still, there seems to be some effort and interest from the open source
community.
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