Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere [LWN.net]

Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere

Posted Mar 3, 2021 18:10 UTC (Wed) by fratti (subscriber, #105722)
In reply to: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus by josh
Parent article: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Support a proprietary undocumented protocol that requires loading a Google-controlled web page and is merely a glorified backdoored HLS streaming server? Why that sounds grand, please repeatedly request it on the mpv issue tracker as well.

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Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere

Posted Mar 3, 2021 20:52 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm sorry to hear that you've had issues with unhelpful or overly expectant bug reports. Please don't project that onto everyone who's interested in seeing two technologies to work together.

I asked if someone had any efforts to make the two work together. I did *not* imply at any point that it was someone's job or obligation to do so.

Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere

Posted Mar 4, 2021 8:28 UTC (Thu) by andreashappe (subscriber, #4810) [Link] (2 responses)

..given this response, I am again reminded why I use an "early" lwn-subscriber number as "niceness-indicator".

Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere

Posted Mar 14, 2021 3:59 UTC (Sun) by calumapplepie (guest, #143655) [Link]

*cries in sextuple-digit account number*

Please don't ask for Chromecast anywhere

Posted Mar 14, 2021 4:47 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

KILL ALL HUMANS! ROBOTS RULE!

Hey, it seems to be working!