https://github.com/fcwu/desktop-mirror

A utility to stream screen and audio between Windows, Ubuntu or XBMC
https://github.com/fcwu/desktop-mirror

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A utility to stream screen and audio between Windows, Ubuntu or XBMC

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fcwu/desktop-mirror
• Owner: fcwu
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2013-08-19T10:37:15.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-10-14T17:26:38.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T18:52:26.557Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 38.6 MB
• Stars: 130
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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desktop-mirror

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![main screen](https://raw.github.com/fcwu/desktop-mirror/master/screenshots/main.png)

A utility to stream screen and audio between Windows, Ubuntu or XBMC. The features include

* Cross platforms in Windows 7, Ubuntu and XBMC

* Encode video to H264 and audio to mp3 via ffmpeg

* Support to stream a area of screen or full screen

* Easily to find available nodes in LAN by mDNS(Avahi)

Find video to show how it works

* [desktop-mirror between Windows, Ubuntu and XBMC](http://youtu.be/9ruu2L2MrSU)

* [Streaming to QNAP's NAS](http://youtu.be/_ODvcmgMZyo)

Install

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[Download binary for Windows 7](http://qnap-ubuntu.dorowu.com/internal/desktop-mirror.exe)

For ubuntu,

```

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fcwu-tw/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install desktop-mirror

```

Build Windows Execution

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Install Windows 7 32-bits,

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop

2. Install Python 2.7.x and py2exe-0.6.9

3. Install nsis

4. ```git checkout -b win7 origin/win7```, then run ```build.bat```

Troubleshooting

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1. No audio is streaming out on Ubuntu

    Open pavcontrol, select Recording tab and find "ALSA [plug-ins](avconv)..." as following image

    ![PulseAudio Volume Control](https://raw.github.com/fcwu/desktop-mirror/master/screenshots/pavcontrol.png)

    Check it is capturing the right device.

2. More log messages

    Run the application in console and append parameters "--log-level debug"

License

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desktop-mirror is under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.