Screencast

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Submitted by coderus on Thu, 2020/01/09 - 14:22
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Application fot streaming screen over network.
Designed for presentations, application send only changed frames. After connect you have to do something on phone, so new frames could be sent to clients. And it support up to 16 clients at the same time, but more clients causes more lags :)

Streaming MJPEG using multipart/x-mixed-replace server. Simply open http://device_ip:5554 in any web browser. You can also connect to 554 or 5554 port using streaming client (tested with vlc).

Application have no icon on desktop.
You can modify options inside Settings -> System -> Screencast
After modifying options you need to disconnect all clients and connect again.

Screencast daemon is closing itself after alst client is disconnected. Waiting for connection using systemd socket, no active processes spawning.

Sources: https://github.com/coderus/screencast

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File screencast-0.1.0-1.armv7hl.rpm35.56 KB08/08/2019 - 12:12
File screencast-0.1.1-1.armv7hl.rpm35.57 KB08/08/2019 - 12:21
File screencast-0.1.2-1.armv7hl.rpm35.59 KB08/08/2019 - 12:31
File screencast-0.2.0-1.armv7hl.rpm39.35 KB08/08/2019 - 20:50
File screencast-0.2.1.armv7hl.rpm40.96 KB09/08/2019 - 12:08
File screencast-0.2.1.i486.rpm43.3 KB09/08/2019 - 12:08
File screencast-0.2.2.armv7hl.rpm40.97 KB09/08/2019 - 12:57
File screencast-0.2.2.i486.rpm43.27 KB09/08/2019 - 12:57
File screencast-0.2.3.armv7hl.rpm41.52 KB09/08/2019 - 14:14
File screencast-0.2.3.i486.rpm43.82 KB09/08/2019 - 14:14
File screencast-0.2.4-2.armv7hl.rpm42.4 KB09/08/2019 - 18:41
File screencast-0.2.4-2.i486.rpm44.67 KB09/08/2019 - 18:41
File screencast-0.2.5-10.10.1.armv7hl.rpm39.25 KB09/08/2019 - 23:39
File screencast-0.2.5-10.10.1.i486.rpm40.26 KB09/08/2019 - 23:39
File screencast-0.2.6-10.11.1.jolla_.armv7hl.rpm39.53 KB09/12/2019 - 15:14
File screencast-0.2.6-10.11.1.jolla_.i486.rpm40.56 KB09/12/2019 - 15:14
File screencast-0.2.7-10.12.1.jolla_.armv7hl.rpm39.93 KB10/12/2019 - 18:08
File screencast-0.2.7-10.12.1.jolla_.i486.rpm41.01 KB10/12/2019 - 18:08
File screencast-0.2.8-1.3.1.jolla_.armv7hl.rpm43.46 KB09/01/2020 - 14:22
File screencast-0.2.8-1.3.1.jolla_.i486.rpm45.75 KB09/01/2020 - 14:22
Changelog: 

0.2.8:
Fixed small bug caused everything to blow up!

0.2.7:
More fixes for new frames capturing for new clients, this fixes /screenshot request for single client

0.2.6:
Request repaint on last frame
Fix scriptlets on installation

0.2.5:
Improved stability
Added /screenshot endpoint
Added flush option

Comments

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objectifnul

Thu, 2020/01/09 - 19:46

Excellent! Gives me an idea: a duplex app allowing to interact with the phone from a remote screen/mouse/keyboard. Kind of SailfishTeamViewer. Just dreaming, of course...

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coderus

Thu, 2020/01/09 - 19:52

https://build.merproject.org/package/show/home:kimmoli/lipstick2vnc

should be still working

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philter

Thu, 2019/12/12 - 14:37

Thank you, really useful!

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tmojo

Tue, 2019/12/10 - 19:34

Uhhh thanks for the hint

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tmojo

Tue, 2019/12/10 - 17:44

This is exciting, and performance / delay is surprisingly good.

If we had the chance to have the mouse input forwarded from the PC / browser to the phone it would replace the missing VNC server.

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coderus

Tue, 2019/12/10 - 17:51

vnc server is available ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i used its code to develop my app

https://github.com/mer-qa/lipstick2vnc

http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/kimmoli/sailfish_latest_armv7hl/arm...

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eatdirt

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 23:33

Great, last version works for me on J1, although it takes some time to connect.
Fantastic! Well done, as usual :)

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 23:42

Service send only changed frames, so after connect you need to do something on your phone))

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llelectronics

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 18:30

The package does not install as it tries in its preinst to restart services that aren't there. 

After installing 0.1.0 and upgrading and multiple restarts I fail to connect to anything. The IP is granted missing the first number but still even after adding it it does not show anything but a timeout. Socket and Service are running. 

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 18:41

Thanks, please try with new build

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Pemek

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 14:58

@coderus why usb address x.x.2.15 does not work? It is a software limitation or host/client routing problem?

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 16:14

Everything works just fine

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 13:35

Will landscape view be supported at some point?

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 14:14

Fixed in 0.2.3

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 14:34

Sweet, nicely and quickly done, thanks, works a treat.

I wondered about a pulley menu entry for "systemctl restart screencast.service"....?

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 14:37

That's not possible, it requires root privileges

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eatdirt

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:46

Same hwre. The ip reported is buggy, it starts by 92 instead of 192 in my case. Looks like a real issue, even listening on 192.x.x.x:554 gives nothing.

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:53

try reboot or manually systemctl restart screencast.socket
ip info label will be fixed, thanks for reporting

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 13:21

Okay, it is working now, I was offered TWO IP addresses by the app.

The first IP "http://92.168.blah.blah:554" does not work at all, then I looked at the second offering ( http://.1.1.1:554 ) and realised it was ONE digit short of my J1 USB IP, which is "1.1.1.1" as soon as I corrected the IP in my browser, my J1 screen appeared on my monitor.

Looks cool man, seems real smooth too, I'm sure this will come in useful for questions that are difficult to form, instead, show a screencast - good work man, as usual :)

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 11:22

Silly question - how to actually connect?

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 11:53

settings page says so: http://ip:554

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:13

Great description, you think I didn't read that part?, it doesn't connect with either addresses shown at bottom of app., that's why I've asked.

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:14

Check your firewall stuff

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Markkyboy

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:27

Nope, still no joy.

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:53

try reboot or manually systemctl restart screencast.socket

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carmenfdezb

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 00:31

Thanks for this app!! I would like to try it in my tablet, could you build for i486 devices?

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coderus

Fri, 2019/08/09 - 12:08

uploaded!

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carmenfdezb

Sun, 2019/08/11 - 13:52

Thank you!

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sashikknox

Thu, 2019/08/08 - 17:39

Update is awesome!

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t0t3u

Thu, 2019/08/08 - 15:15

Is there a way to stop the service from always listening on 554 ?

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