Share and split your live video screen stream to many devices simultaneously. App allows you to broadcast and to watch any content from desktop. Stay secure with alfacast while watching live streaming, the app supports end-to-end encryption technology. Automatic discovery technology will allow you to enjoy using the app. Forget about logins, installation and the long process of setup video broadcast servers, for alfacast it is simply not necessary. Stream your content from a video camera apps, photo album apps, stream video from player apps, show presentations, slides, photos or pictures anywhere and anytime!
To stream video from apps, you need to open a third-party app. The alfacast will capture your screen with all the displayed content. You need to display content from a third-party app on the streamer device screen.
For example, if you want to stream video from a camera, follow these steps on the streamer device:
After that please follow these steps on your viewer device:
alfacast features:
This alfacast app is tested on latest Linux Ubuntu or Ubuntu LTS distribution. If you want to achieve more stability of this app please use these Linux distribution versions.
If you have some kind of issues or problems please read built-in app instruction firstly: Main menu -> Instruction. If you have some other issues please do not hesitate to contact us by email with full problem description.
WARNING! For Raspberry Pi and ARM CPU based boards
The alfacast app uses hardware accelerated codec and you have to enable it manually. Please copy and run this command in terminal:
sudo snap connect alfacast:camera
After that you can run and use alfacast app on ARM board
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On a Raspberry Pi running the latest version of Raspbian snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
You will also need to reboot your device:
sudo reboot
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
To install alfacast screen mirror, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install alfacast
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.
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