desktop-mirror

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
• Streaming to QNAP's NAS

Install

Download binary for Windows 7

For ubuntu,

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fcwu-tw/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install desktop-mirror

Build Windows Execution

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

1. No audio is streaming out on Ubuntu

   Open pavcontrol, select Recording tab and find "ALSA plug-ins..." as following image

   

   Check it is capturing the right device.

2. More log messages

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

License

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