[mythtv-users] Android 4.2 and Miracast/Wi-Fi Direct

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/30/2012 11:55 AM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Jim Oltman wrote:
>> Are there any plans to implement Wi-Fi Direct into MythTV?  I'd love to be
>> able to stream anything from my phone over to my FrontEnd.  I know I can do
>> this partially with AirPlay, but having the full fledged Android Miracast
>> would (most likely) be superior.  Thanks!
> AFAIK there is no (existing) open source implementation available, so
> at a minimum one would need specs (currently hidden behind a paywall)
> and then some amount of developer time to implement (where the
> developer time is probably the most "expensive" part).  Certainly a
> open source (reference) implementation would be a great thing to
> support and develop, although whether that should be within the
> MythTV project, or in another project, is an interesting question (so
> that MythTV would simple use the reference implementation libraries).

Ideally, IMHO, in an external project that can be included into MythTV 
(i.e. GPL-compatible license and using C or C++).  And, that external 
project would--in a perfect world--have an active community of users and 
developers working with it.  (BTW, this is the same thing I would like 
to see for the UPnP implementation in MythTV--our switching from our own 
custom code that we don't have time to maintain (let alone the ability 
to sort out "if we fix this device, it breaks this other device, so..." 
issues) to an external library like Platinum UPnP.

Mike