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Miracast is such standard. Thousands of devices support it. However two major players ( Apple & Google) dont. Apple has traditionally been a closed system, so i
by israrkhan 10y ago
Miracast is such standard. Thousands of devices support it. However two major players ( Apple & Google) dont. Apple has traditionally been a closed system, so it is not a big surprise. What surprises me is that Google also removed support for Miracast from Android and started promoting their proprietary casting protocol.
- Sargos 10y agoMiracast is heavily broken on many devices and rarely works at a reasonable level. Netflix and Google worked to create a good streaming standard names DIAL. Google took the idea and ran with it to create the Cast system which ended up working really well.
- jedberg 10y agoBut the Cast system doesn't send arbitrary bits to the TV. It's a protocol for handing off authorized streams which are then processed by the TV (or in most cases the device connected to the TV by, ironically, HDMI). So it's not really a method to stream arbitrary visual and audio data to a TV.
- Ajedi32 10y agoWell, you _can_ do screen mirroring with Cast, at least on Android. In my experience though it has fairly high latency and will occasionally freeze for a few seconds at a time.
- legulere 10y agoThe problem is that Miracast interoperability is terrible and often doesn't work.
- 9point6 10y agoWe also have had DLNA for around a decade now. It was never perfect, but it was fairly well supported in the past. Unfortunately it didn't evolve quick enough so proprietary solutions overtook it.