Can you cast to a Roku device with this?
Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
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#22Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
I’m not against piracy but the initial pitch made it seem like it’s more purely for trying to cast streams embedded in websites that you already are visiting and/or have access to, of which do not “allow” you to cast, or for whatever reason only work on a laptop and not on something like AirPlay. But the LLM-slop description of “random websites” in addition to the option for a TVDB API key confuse me as to what the a…
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#24Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
It could just be streaming the trailer.
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#27This is interesting, instead of a command line interface it made me wonder what an interface right on the tv could look like. Comparisons to watching tv, are usually a TV interface, with a TV device/app, be it an Android TV/Apple TV, etc. Maybe I'm missing it, I couldn't see a tv interface. The part where it can send video to any kind of tv is a pretty remarkable piece.
It's also remarkably "old" in a digital sense: Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices. Introduced 2004; 22 years ago. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA Google Cast is a proprietary protocol developed by Google for playing locally stored or Internet-streamed audiovisual content on a compatible consumer device. The protoco…
Old also in this case keeps TVs useful longer
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#28For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels.
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#29> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay.
Looks like Claude built it.
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#30Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?
I am not sure how this would help with piracy? It can only play a stream you already have access to, it doesn’t break encryption or anything.