Yes I have Chromecast now. I'm able to cast non HD MP4 files with acceptable results but not AVI or MKV. Turns out my computer isn't powerful enough to simultaneously transcode and cast.
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Kind of drifting off-topic, this isn't a chromecast thread.... I'm much more interested in the n7 having miracast.
But since we've drifted I'll say this about the chromecast, or how it came about. First the nexus Q, everyone was like wtf a 300 dollar orb with no remote that can only stream stuff from google play? ! No thanks.
See, google should have said let's add features like local streaming of pictures, vdieos, music. Maybe even be able to browse the web with it. Scale back the price to 199 and lose the stupid form factor of an orb and they would have had a winner. But that's not what google wanted. They knew all too well what they want you to buy. The want you to buy a device to stream content from their servers. Sure netflix et al is a bonus, but it's content being streamed and all your tablet/phone is doing is 'queuing' up the content.
But instead of giving people what they actually want, they wanted to stick with this idea. So repackage it in a dongle, sell it for 35 bucks. What everyone said last year about the NQ is true of the CC, it's just a smaller form factor and lower price.
So people are trying to figure out how to stream local content with it, with limited success so far, but that's not google's intention.
It sounds like what you want it miracast like functionality but for whatever reason, google won't give you that.
Last year,it was the n7 doesn't have dual band so it can't do it, even worse reasons for the n10. Well, the N7 2 has dual band but no mention of it having miracast is there? Why is that?
I'm ranting a little I guess google is not impressing me with their moves (e.g. gtalk switched over to hangouts).
But kudos to the developer for making this. Someone said they want to see this in all roms. My question is, why isn't it by now and what took so long for one person to even try?
I ranted about this before here:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36842228
I'd like to see every rom have miracast, every rom to have multi-user (phone or not), every rom to have sip dialer (whether it's 3g/4g or wifi only).and I would have thought devs would do this, but no one seems to enable these features in their roms. The code is there so why not?
