<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Tom Hayward <<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com">esarfl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> They don't advertise MPEG2 support, but this would make MythTV support<br>
> much more useful (at least with my content).<br>
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</div>Probably the same reason few phones/tablets support MPEG-2<br>
HW decode, in that the chip may be capable of it, but you save<br>
a few dollars per device by not licensing it (and you save<br>
bandwidth requirements too, which can be important when you<br>
are doing things wirelessly).<br>
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Gary</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately on this page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/">https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>They state, quite clearly:</div><div><br></div><div><strong style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">Note:</strong><span style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px;background-color:rgb(255,204,204)"> You may not publicly distribute or ship your Google Cast application without written permission from Google, per the terms of service described below.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>And, the big one:</div><div><br></div><div><strong style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">YOU MAY NOT PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTE CODE CONTAINING THIS SDK OR REFERENCING THESE APIs WITHOUT A WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH GOOGLE ALLOWING YOU TO DO SO.</strong></div>
<div><br></div><div>Basically, no Open Source apps can use the Chromecast APIs. Wasn't Google supposed to be the savior of Open Source software??? </div></div></div></div>