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alan 1ed57291f9 Screencast: cast the desktop to Cast, DLNA and AirPlay receivers
An Omarchy shell plugin: a Python/asyncio daemon that discovers network
displays and serves an encoded screen capture for them to pull, plus a
Quickshell bar widget and panel to drive it.

The screen comes from the xdg-desktop-portal ScreenCast interface (asked
for every time, never remembered), goes through GStreamer, and is served
from a local HTTP port. Desktop audio is mixed in from the default
output's monitor. The container follows the receiver: WebM/VP8 for Cast,
MPEG-TS/H.264 for DLNA, HLS for AirPlay video.

The stream port has to be reachable from the LAN, and none of these
protocols can carry a credential, so the capability is the URL: a fresh
random path per session, refused to anything off the LAN, capped at four
concurrent readers.
2026-08-29 19:57:54 +01:00

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"""What every receiver protocol has to provide."""
from __future__ import annotations
from ..devices import Device
class BackendError(Exception):
pass
class Backend:
kind = ""
#: Containers this protocol can be handed, best first.
containers: tuple[str, ...] = ("webm",)
#: Does it pull a plain HTTP stream (True) or an HLS playlist (False)?
progressive = True
def __init__(self, daemon) -> None:
self.daemon = daemon
async def play(self, device: Device, url: str, *, container: str, title: str) -> None:
raise NotImplementedError
async def stop(self, device: Device) -> None:
raise NotImplementedError
async def set_volume(self, device: Device, volume: float) -> None:
raise BackendError("this receiver has no volume control")
async def set_muted(self, device: Device, muted: bool) -> None:
raise BackendError("this receiver has no mute control")
async def transport(self, device: Device, action: str) -> None:
raise BackendError("this receiver has no transport control")
async def poll(self, device: Device) -> dict:
"""Live status of the session: {state, app, volume, muted, error}."""
return {}
async def close(self) -> None:
return None