<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jim Oltman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.oltman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.oltman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">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" target="_blank">esarfl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>> 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><div>Unfortunately on this page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/</a></div>
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<br></div><div>They state, quite clearly:</div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:14px">Note:</b><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><b 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.</b></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></blockquote><div><br>Not to say they won't permit it of course.<br>
<br>On this topic, I can say this python code <a href="https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast">https://github.com/dz0ny/leapcast</a> works 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.<br>
<br>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. <br><br>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.<br>
<br>Still, there seems to be some effort and interest from the open source community.<br></div></div>