1025498 - Add Chromecast support to desktop

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140613063254

Steps to reproduce:

It's coming to Android and it'd be huge to have it on desktop too.

Comment 1

[Caspy7]

If I understand correctly, the Chromecast API is closed and Firefox on Android is dependent on a special plugin in Android to connect to it. Google has chosen not to open up this API to others, including desktop apps, so the only non-Android-based app that can connect is Chrome.

Until Google opens up this API I don't believe it would be viable to implement this. 
mfinkle, can you confirm?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I can confirm. There is no Google Cast SDK support on desktop, which would be needed to implement Chromecast support in desktop Firefox. The SDK and protocol are closed. Maybe in the future it will be opened. We'll need to wait.

Comment 3

[Paul [pwd]]

Is Miracast support still a possibility?

Comment 4

[Caspy7]

(In reply to Paul [pwd] from comment #3)
> Is Miracast support still a possibility?

See bug 992964.

Comment 5

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to Caspy7 from comment #4)
> (In reply to Paul [pwd] from comment #3)
> > Is Miracast support still a possibility?
> 
> See bug 992964.

Isn't that just for mobile?

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Paul [pwd] from comment #5)
> (In reply to Caspy7 from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Paul [pwd] from comment #3)
> > > Is Miracast support still a possibility?
> > 
> > See bug 992964.
> 
> Isn't that just for mobile?

No. Windows 8.1 has built-in support, but you can use drivers to add support to earlier versions too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracast#OS_support