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They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and

by nolok 9y ago

They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and it can't stream to the market leader casting device. I love competition but this to me is a case of "ohh, screw that, just make whatever work with whatever"

kuschku 9y ago
> They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and it can't stream to the market leader casting device. Actually, Amazon had apps that did this. Google changed the Chromecast protocol, and demanded that app developers use their proprietary library. I once had an app that was affected by this, too. The fault is entirely with Google.
- nolok 9y ago
  Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. Also, amazon makes a tablet is "easy dumb way to consume your media", and while it is not fit for me and probably not for you, it's awesome for the people who know very little and want a recommendation. Yet amazon screwed that up with that move. What does it matter to them if I use their 40e thingy or google's as long as I buy my media on them. Instead it's revert to Google and buy on Google play.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    > Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. VLC actually uses a proprietary library for it, but doesn’t ship it. Specifically, VLC asks the OS to activate the secondary display, which leads Android to redirect this request to Google Play Services. This feature does not work on Amazon Kindles, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, or any other non-Google Android distributions. Also, for full Chromecast support, you need to use 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:8.3.+' – which, obviously, is proprietary.

by nolok 9y ago

kuschku 9y ago

> They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and it can't stream to the market leader casting device. Actually, Amazon had apps that did this. Google changed the Chromecast protocol, and demanded that app developers use their proprietary library. I once had an app that was affected by this, too. The fault is entirely with Google.

nolok 9y ago
Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. Also, amazon makes a tablet is "easy dumb way to consume your media", and while it is not fit for me and probably not for you, it's awesome for the people who know very little and want a recommendation. Yet amazon screwed that up with that move. What does it matter to them if I use their 40e thingy or google's as long as I buy my media on them. Instead it's revert to Google and buy on Google play.
- kuschku 9y ago
  > Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. VLC actually uses a proprietary library for it, but doesn’t ship it. Specifically, VLC asks the OS to activate the secondary display, which leads Android to redirect this request to Google Play Services. This feature does not work on Amazon Kindles, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, or any other non-Google Android distributions. Also, for full Chromecast support, you need to use 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:8.3.+' – which, obviously, is proprietary.