Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by keeperofdakeys » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 3:52 AM UTC

Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast
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Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by taspeotis » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:23 AM UTC

Was it ever supported? The response in the forum is "[a]t this time, Chromium is not supported for use with Google Cast." which doesn't explicitly say that support was retracted.

Original title, lest it changes:

    Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast (productforums.google.com)
    3 points by keeperofdakeys 1 hour ago

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by DrAwesome » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:32 AM UTC

taspeotis wrote: post #2

Was it ever supported? The response in the forum is "[a]t this time, Chromium is not supported for use with Google Cast." which doesn't explicitly say that support was retracted. Original title, lest it changes: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast (productforums.google.com) 3 points by keeperofdakeys 1 hour ago

I don't have a Chromecast set up, so I'm not 100% sure on this, but my understanding is that Chromium users could cast using the Google Cast extension, and that Google did something (intentionally or unintentionally) to break the Cast extension and didn't fix it because casting is built into directly into Chrome now.

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by TD-Linux » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:34 AM UTC

taspeotis wrote: post #2

Was it ever supported? The response in the forum is "[a]t this time, Chromium is not supported for use with Google Cast." which doesn't explicitly say that support was retracted. Original title, lest it changes: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast (productforums.google.com) 3 points by keeperofdakeys 1 hour ago

Well, the bug report made clear that it worked before with the official extension and doesn't work now. It depends on how pedantic you want to be with "supported".

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by jfoster » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:35 AM UTC

This isn't a response from a Google employee, right?

My understanding is that there is some sort of volunteer programme for Google forums. (Side-note: Is there anything in it for the volunteers? How does Google convince them to do this?)

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:40 AM UTC

jfoster wrote: post #5

This isn't a response from a Google employee, right? My understanding is that there is some sort of volunteer programme for Google forums. (Side-note: Is there anything in it for the volunteers? How does Google convince them to do this?)

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Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by alexmat » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 5:53 AM UTC

The new cast feature in recent builds of chromium is not working for me. It fails to find any devices. Looking at the debug output it says: "media router not defined."

After a bit of googling I found you can revert back to using the old cast extension by following these instructions: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6349849?hl=en

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by startling » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 6:25 AM UTC

jfoster wrote: post #5

This isn't a response from a Google employee, right? My understanding is that there is some sort of volunteer programme for Google forums. (Side-note: Is there anything in it for the volunteers? How does Google convince them to do this?)

I think she may be a Google employee. Google's product / support forums are always like this, it's terrible.

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by gcb0 » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 6:29 AM UTC

startling wrote: post #8

jfoster wrote: post #5

This isn't a response from a Google employee, right? My understanding is that there is some sort of volunteer programme for Google forums. (Side-note: Is there anything in it for the volunteers? How does Google convince them to do this?)

I think she may be a Google employee. Google's product / support forums are always like this, it's terrible.

getting even a canned response like that is luxury, when it came to google's support.

Re: Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

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Post by gcb0 » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 6:33 AM UTC

People really have any expectation from Google devices?

Even android which whole marketing is that it is "more open" only receives self-serving features. Btw, the access to chrome-cast is baked in the playStore service. So your app has to be compiled with full google play store tracking library to use it. ...i used to help maintain a version of fenec (firefox for android) that was build without chromecast support just because of this (and if you want it, gnu now maintains a better version called IceCat)

Oh, and even plain-open-source projects... there were 4 attempts to have an option to disable referrer on chromium. All of them reverted by google employers on unrelated commits. So even chromium is not that safe.