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w3c / openscreenprotocol

openscreenprotocol

Open Screen Application Protocol + Open Screen Network Protocol

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
114GitHub stars
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What it is

Open Screen Application Protocol + Open Screen Network Protocol

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 8:59:20 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-05-12 01:34:42 UTC to 2026-05-11 18:45:18 UTC.

0122023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Google has to promise to do some kind of service-providing API when they landed Presentation API (2015) to let the web talk to Chromecast devices. There's Open Screen Protocol doing just that. https://github.com/w3c/openscreenprotocol Worth mentioning, Netflix+YouTube's DIAL protocol (2013) also wasn't bad. I haven't given it much of a look but Matter Cast protocol is out there. It seems far more limited, and only can run specific apps on specific devices? Glowing review recently but seems like junk to me; platform agnostic actually seems to mean devices hosting only specific apps. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/10/24153556/fire-tv-amazon-m...
In Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs
Nice to see Debian under the hood; very solid base. Good market rife for some disruption from below. The existing offerings all feel pretty pricey, especially for the tiny embedded cores that run most of them. Also excited to see ARM finally finally showing up. DIY board, but Linus Tech Tips reviewed the rk3588 based FriendELEC CM3588 with 4x m.2 slots (yes, vastly oversubscribed PCIe), and had nice things to say. It would make a very competent sata NAS and fine for a lot of ssd uses. Its wild to me how bad ARM has been at getting cores out people can use for general computing, just incredible non-delivery forever, but maybe some day more mobile/desktop class cores can emerge at reasonable price points & stir up some entrenched x86, maybe, perhaps, someday, maybe, one of these decades... https://youtu.be/QsM6b5yix0U?si=PoemX6Iu5vTCS85Q h
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ttps://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product%2Fprodu... Edit: UgreenOS being vanilla Debian + management UI was mentioned in TwoGuyzTech review, https://youtu.be/205rlkyK_QE?si=edzzy7tvUW8hhI0d#t=4m Also the HDMI out makes so much sense. Pity there's not better off the shelf protocol/software solutions. Miracast wouldn't make sense because someone else would have to read from the nas then send the video via Miracast to it. Google/w3c has been forever mucking about with a Open Screen Protocol, which aims to fulfill promises to support more than proprietary Chromecast protocol devices when they added Presentation API back in 2015. https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_presentation It would be a great fit & let existing media apps like Jellyfin or Twitch or Spotify just work. Almost a decade down the road though & it's slowboating through standards committees with one blessed engineer slowly coaxing it along, very frustrating long limbo. https://github.com/w3c/openscreenprotocol . There's a demo/reference repo in Chromium that works, and there's actually been consistent movement recently, by >1 engineer, which I'd dare to say is quite uncharacteristic & possibly even exciting. https://chromium.googlesource.com/openscreen/ Matter just cooked their own competing Cast protocol up, with Amazon's help. Dunno what impls/softwares are available. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24030324/amazon-matter-cas... The rk3588 mentioned above also has HDMI-In and a 4k120 HEVC video encoder, which is worth noting especially for it's really interesting streaming possibilities; a gratis highly capable stream capture card, sort of.
In Ugreen to Challenge Synology with Affordable Series of NAS Hardware

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