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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index d6eab26..3b2f16c 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -352,7 +352,9 @@ An album browser and a player, over the folders the operator chose for it. ### Photos An album browser over the folders the operator chose for it, where **an album -is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. +is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. A +photo opens full size, with a slideshow button that moves on every five +seconds and stops at the album's last photo. **Location data is never shown.** Photos shows when a picture was taken and what took it, and no coordinates anywhere. Worth knowing, though: the @@ -392,15 +394,25 @@ resume. ### Casting to a TV -**The desktop and Android applications.** A film playing in the application can -be sent to a cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network: *Cast to device* in -the player, pick one from the list. On a phone, the film goes on playing silently -on the phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off. While a -TV plays the film, the player becomes its remote: the position shown is the -TV's, with play/pause, 30-second jumps and a slider to go anywhere in the film. -Devices appear as they answer, usually within a couple -of seconds; the search carries on for a few more, for a TV that is still -waking up. +**The desktop and Android applications.** Films and photos can be sent to a +cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network. The cast button is in the +Videos toolbar, at the top of Photos, in an album's bar and in the photo +viewer — in a group and in Search alike — and *Cast to device* is in the +player. Devices appear as +they answer, usually within a couple of seconds; the search carries on for a +few more, for a TV that is still waking up. + +**A TV, once chosen, stays chosen** until *Stop casting*, from any cast button +or from the player. Every film opened plays on it, and the player opens as its +remote: the position shown is the TV's, with play/pause, 30-second jumps and a +slider to go anywhere in the film. Every photo opened in the viewer is shown on +it, and a slideshow pages the TV along with the screen. Choosing a TV from an +album's bar opens its first photo. On a phone, a film goes on playing silently +on the phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off. + +Photos are sent scaled to the TV's screen, upright, as an ordinary picture. +The menus, covers and summaries stay on your phone or computer: the TV shows +what is playing, not the application. The application decrypts the film and relays it to the TV itself, over your LAN. The TV is not a group member and holds no key — which is also why the relay's @@ -981,7 +993,8 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it: - **Hubs do not talk to each other yet.** Everyone in a group needs an account on the same hub. - **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android - applications. Support for other TV protocols is designed but not built. + applications, for films and photos. Music is not cast yet. Support for other + TV protocols is designed but not built. - **Some subtitle tracks cannot be shown** — the ones stored as images rather than text, roughly one embedded track in five. Displaying them would need text recognition. |