Yes. I agree.
I much prefer using HDMI cables as I'm able to capture the slides -- and
it is much easier to synchronize slides and camera feed in this way.
Maybe we can bring a usb key and a raspberry pi as a backup option, but
that entails bringing yet another thing to the meeting.
We should discuss this issue at the executive meeting.
Alex.
On 2020-02-12 1:28 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 12:46, Ivan Avery Frey via talk
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Last evening we ran into problems projecting the presenter's
slides onto the room's monitor.
The Wikipedia entry on Miracast claims Google dropped support for
Miracast with Android 6 (Marshmallow)
That's very strange.
I did my January presentation using my phone via Miracast, and I
haven't had a version upgrade lately; my
OnePlus 5 was on version 9 / Pi throughout. (Note that after the
meeting, someone, probably Ivan,
rebooted the monitor, at which point I suddenly *was* projecting my
phone screen to the monitor.
That wasn't an utter surprise; I was trying to do so ;-)! )
It seems as though we need some alternative handling, as we're running
into the trouble that
people are bringing laptops with newly discovered interfaces (I think
this time it was USB-C)
for which we had no adaptor available.
I'm not quite sure what the best alternative is; lurking in my head is
to pull out a ChromeCast
(that speaks HDMI, and can be plugged into a USB port), in the hopes
that we could push
slides over to this. Supposedly works...
<https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/11/google-slides-now-lets-you-stream-your-presentation-to-your-tv-via-chromecast-and-airplay/>
Alternately, maybe a Raspberry Pi could do an apropos job, but it
needs to NOT need a lot of setup
to be "A/V-friendly."
--
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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