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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by sshumaker on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:58PM (#16510522)
xoogler here, one of my teams implemented cast functionality in google photos. IIRC, this was definitely not the reason; the protocol was initially very limited and it was changed to make it more secure while also adding capabilities.
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Re:Amazon won't sell you a Chromecast, but they will sell a ... by kuschku on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:01PM (#16510543)
That's the sending protocol (and I've seen those changes, I reversed that, too), but I meant the changes to the receiving protocol.

There's a separate protocol app → Google and Google → Chromecast. Or at least, there was, after countless changes, I gave up attempting to build a raspberry pi with chromecast support.

And of course, Chromecast replaced the dlna protocols and Miracast support in Android. I lost the ability to stream the screen on my nexus devices to open source receivers back then, because Google had to go proprietary.

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