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I recently got a Miracast dongle and it was a pretty bad experience. My PC would show corrupted video streams, my iPhone worked via an included app but lacked
by BoorishBears 7y ago
I recently got a Miracast dongle and it was a pretty bad experience.
My PC would show corrupted video streams, my iPhone worked via an included app but lacked any sort of context awareness (just blindly mirrors the screen) and doesn’t work well with DRM
I finally caved in after all these years and got an Apple TV and it’s so much nicer of an experience, even looking strictly at mirroring.
Apps are context aware to the fact they’re mirroring, much lower latency from my PC (despite using a 3rd party app), no weird dependency on WiFi for initial pairing (Window's native mirroring won’t work with my Miracast device because my PC doesn’t have a WiFi card installed)
I don’t know if it’s an ecosystem problem for Miracast (I’m pretty sure the only “high quality” implementation of it is the Microsoft adapter, but there’s an ocean of dongles that “support it”) or a technological limitation, but it wasn’t good