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[Heroldich Robin <robinhero@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks everybody for your answers.

Maybe a stupid question. But why don't you rebase all phones to Android 5.x? Is it possible?

> To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: simon.fels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:51:50 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Miracast - WiFi Displays
> 
> On 28.02.2016 19:32, Marco Graziotti wrote:
> > Hi Robin,
> > 
> > I'm interested in "aethercast" because my MX4 don't support wired
> > connection.
> > Can you indicate the correct procedure to install and try aethercast?
> 
> We already have code in place which does proper display streaming but
> this is currently working only on one particular device: The upcoming
> Meizu MX Pro 5. The reason for this is just that we used specific API
> functions which are available just on Android 5.x and therefore not on
> devices based based on Android 4.x like the MX4. However this doesn't
> mean that Miracast wont work on that device and that wont add support
> for it. It just requires us to rework the encoding side in aethercast a
> bit so that it supports multiple Android versions. Work for this is
> currently in progress.
> 
> Currently if you follow the instructions on [1] you wont get anything
> working on any other device than the Meizu MX Pro 5.
> 
> There is quite a lot of work going on and we will for sure state in the
> public when this is ready for test on other devices.
> 
> Sorry that you can't test this yet but we're working quite hard to make
> that possible.
> 
> regards,
> Simon
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DisplayCasting
> 
> 
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