Screen Casting your UT device to your computer

Ubuntu Touch comes with a command line utility called mirscreencast which dumps screen frames to a file. The idea here is to stream UT display to a listening computer over the network or directly trough adb so that we can either watch it live or record it to a file.

使用 adb

You can catch output directly from adb exec-out command and forward it to mplayer:

adb exec-out timeout 120 mirscreencast -m /run/mir_socket --stdout --cap-interval 2 -s 384 640 | mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=384:h=640:format=rgba -

NB: timeout here is used in order to kill process properly on device ( here 120 seconds ). Otherwise process still continuing even if killed on computer. You can reduce or increase frame per second with``–cap-interval`` (1 = 60fps, 2=30fps, …) and size of frames 384 640 means width=384 height=640

通过网络

On receiver

For real time casting:

Prepare your computer to listen to a tcp port(here 1234) and forward raw stream to a video player (here mplayer) with a frame size of 384x640:

nc -l -p 1234 | gzip -dc | mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=384:h=640:format=rgba -

For stream recording:

Prepare your computer to listen to a tcp port(here 1234), ungzip and forward raw stream to a video encoder (here mencoder):

nc -l -p 1234 | gzip -dc | mencoder -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo fps=60:w=384:h=640:format=rgba -ovc x264 -o out.avi -

On device

Forward and gzip stream with 60fps (–cap-interval 1) and frame size of 384x640 to computer 10.42.0.209 on port 1234

mirscreencast -m /run/mir_socket --stdout --cap-interval 1 -s 384 640 | gzip -c | nc 10.42.0.209 1234

示例脚本

This script allows you to screen cast remote UT device to your local PC (must have ssh access to UT and mplayer installed on PC), run it on your computer:

#!/bin/bash
SCREEN_WIDTH=384
SCREEN_HEIGHT=640
PORT=1234
FORMAT=rgba


if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
    echo 'usage: ./mircast.sh UT_IP_ADDRESS , e.g: ./mircast.sh 192.168.1.68'
    exit 1
fi

IP=$1

LOCAL_COMMAND='nc -l -p $PORT | gzip -dc | mplayer -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=$SCREEN_WIDTH:h=$SCREEN_HEIGHT:format=$FORMAT -'
REMOTE_COMMAND="mirscreencast -m /run/mir_socket --stdout --cap-interval 1 -s $SCREEN_WIDTH $SCREEN_HEIGHT | gzip -c | nc \$SSH_CLIENT $PORT"
ssh -f phablet@$IP "$REMOTE_COMMAND"
eval $LOCAL_COMMAND

您可以从这下载： files/mircast.sh