{"id":103,"date":"2015-01-04T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=103"},"modified":"2021-01-23T01:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T00:40:41","slug":"windows-8-1-as-a-miracast-receiver-airserver-universal-3-0-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2015\/01\/04\/windows-8-1-as-a-miracast-receiver-airserver-universal-3-0-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8.1 as a Miracast receiver (AirServer Universal 3.0.26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"51\" align=\"left\" \/>AirServer Universal can turn a Windows 8.1 machine into a Miracast receiver. I wrote about that in my article <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2014\/11\/10\/your-windows-8-1-machine-as-a-miracast-receiver\/\">Your Windows 8.1 machine as a Miracast receiver<\/a>. But within my earlier tests, I've had some issues. Today I gave AirServer Universal 3.0.26 a new test drive on two Windows 8.1 machines.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/855cbf3f74f54a02a5a6c9a8bc389cd0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>AirServer Universal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airserver.com\/Download\/Referrer\/3312878\">is available here<\/a> as a 7 day trial and will be licensed for a small fee. The Miracast feature will be available only on full updated Windows 8.1 machines (especially August 2014 Update Rollup) and capable hardware.<\/p>\n<h3>My test machines<\/h3>\n<p>Within my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/how-to-turn-a-windows-8-1-machine-into-a-miracast-receiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous test<\/a> I run only one Windows 8.1 tablet pc as a Miracast receiver. This time I've used two distinct Windows 8.1 test machines available here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/heutiges-30-10-medion-akoya-s6214t-aldi-angebot-im-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medion Akoya S6214T<\/a>: A 14 \" convertible from German vendor Medion, sold via Aldi discounter, with a Intel N3520 CPU (and Intel HD graphics on chipset)<\/li>\n<li>#2 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200815050758\/https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/28\/medion-akoya-p2214t-ab-29-dezember-bei-aldi-sd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medion Akoya P2214T<\/a>: A 10,1 \" convertible from German vendor Medion, sold via Aldi discounter, with a Intel N2940 CPU (and Intel HD graphics on chipset)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In previous tests last year, I've configured only machine #1 as a Miracast receiver. Today I also decided to install AirServer Universal on machine #2. So I've hat the opportunity to use both machines either as a Miracast source or sink.<\/p>\n<h3>Miracast Test with Windows 8.1<\/h3>\n<p>During these tests, I was using one Windows 8.1 machine as sender, whilst the other Windows 8.1 machine acts as a sink, using AirPlay Univeral as Miracast receiver. During my tests I have had no problems to establish a Miracast connection. Both machines was able to connect to their counterpart within a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming from machine #1 to machine #2, I observed, that mouse pointer movements was delayed a bit on the receiver. And machine #1 has graphic issues (some kind of fragmentation) during Miracast transmission during streaming from machine #2. The upper screen in the image show below has this issues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160430052442\/http:\/\/t38.imgup.net\/Mira0322d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During my new test drive, I also used machine #1 as source and machine #2 as Miracast sink. On machine #2 I haven't had this graphical issues. The transmitted screen was mirrored flawless to AirServer Universal und the corresponding Windows 8.1 machine.<\/p>\n<p>Because both machines are using distinct Intel CPUs (#1: Intel N3520 CPU, #2: Intel N3520) also different Intel HD graphics GPUs might be involved. So my conclusion is, that either the GPU or the graphics driver on machine #1 might be the cause for this flaw (machine #2 has better graphics capabilities, afaik).<\/p>\n<h3>Miracast Test with Android as source<\/h3>\n<p>Using Android devices as a Miracast sender may be some kind of trouble maker for AirServer Univeral (and also for some HDMI-Miracast-Receiver). Here I'm using a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7 (2013) with Android 5.x (Lollipop), a Samsung Galaxy S4 with Android 4.4.2 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/medion-zoombox-miracast-mit-android-teil-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this German article<\/a>) for Miracast test drivers. This time I've had also a Medion Lifetab E7332 Android 4.4.2 tablet pc, sold last December at Hofer Austria (Aldi), as a Miracast sender.<\/p>\n<p>During my previous test drives, I've tried to connect Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Galaxy S4 with my Windows 8.1 Miracast receiving machine \u2013 but I wasn't successful. The connections has either been aborted or stalled.<\/p>\n<p>Today I run again a test drive with Nexus 7 (2013), but without success. Then I made a 2nd attempt, to connect the (new) Medion Lifetab E7332, running Android 4.4.2, with my Windows 8.1 receiver. At least I was successful. It took a few seconds more (compared with a Windows 8.1 source). But at least, my Android screen was mirrored to my Windows 8.1 machine, running AirServer Universal.<\/p>\n<p>As a conclusion, I can say AirServer Universal 3.0.26 is capable to act as a Miracast receiver. But not all sources will connect with this receiver. Within my German blog articles I some users commented, that a Surface Pro was able to be used as a Miracast receiver. Also a Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad was able to act as a Miracast receiver, using a Samsung Note 3 neo as a source. These comments and the results observed above makes me eager to get my fingers on new AirServer Universal builds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/how-to-turn-a-windows-8-1-machine-into-a-miracast-receiver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to turn a Windows 8.1 machine into a Miracast receiver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airserver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AirServer Universal<\/a> (vendor site)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirServer Universal can turn a Windows 8.1 machine into a Miracast receiver. I wrote about that in my article Your Windows 8.1 machine as a Miracast receiver. But within my earlier tests, I've had some issues. Today I gave AirServer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2015\/01\/04\/windows-8-1-as-a-miracast-receiver-airserver-universal-3-0-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,60,24,23],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-airserver-universal","tag-android","tag-miracast","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}