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Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by StavrosK »

1010011010 wrote: post #49
Osiris wrote: post #40

How does the Chromecast work for someone like me that has their movie collection stored on a NAS? I currently use XBMC in my living room, but for the bedroom I'd love to have something like the Chromecast if I could use it to stream content (MKV, x264) from my NAS plus maybe some Netflix/Pandora. Is that possible with the Chromecast? If not, does this SDK open up more possibilities for playing local content vs. strea…

Plex Media Center.

Does it/can it work headless? It would be great if it had a nice interface on the phone and could send my NAS content to the Chromecast.

Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by diminoten »

StavrosK wrote: post #211
1010011010 wrote: post #49

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Plex Media Center.

Does it/can it work headless? It would be great if it had a nice interface on the phone and could send my NAS content to the Chromecast.

It has no "head" to begin with, so yes it works headless.

Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by fpgeek »

whichdan wrote: post #27

If Chromecast supported Amazon Video, I'd probably use it more than my HTPC.

Indeed. After the Ethernet port, Amazon Instant Video and Slingplayer are the two use cases that make Google TV better than Chromecast for me (and there's always CheapCast, I suppose).

Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by jsloat »

dclara wrote: post #167
wahsd wrote: post #103

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I played with Chromecast for about a couple weeks and just yesterday remembered I had totally forgotten about it. It's a typical Google product, released just after leaving Alpha state, marginally decent, of limited and disjointed utility, and generally poorly executed. Judging based on Google's history with, literally every single thing they have done, we are approaching peak internal support and attention with decl…

Funny scenario, but I can imagine. This is also my concern along with the rest of the things. Can we anticipate that we have so many apps installed on our phone and keep looking for the one we need to control every time? Especially, we'll buy every "thing" with an Android or ChromeOS or iOS on it for a price more than $100?

> Can we anticipate that we have so many apps installed on our phone and keep looking for the one we need to control every time?

Total tangent, but I've come to depend on the Android app Conjure[1], which acts kind of like Mac's Spotlight search for apps. You can type in a full app name, or show all apps that contain the letters you type in in that order, even if you skip letters (e.g. searching for "cre" would bring up ChRomE").

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iojess.con...

Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by jsloat »

_ea1k wrote: post #62
isomorphic wrote: post #47

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Out of curiosity, what have you been using your Chromecast for? I have drunk the Apple Kool-Aid: I have iOS devices, AppleTVs, and a home server running iTunes. Admittedly, the iTunes server is serving video and music that is ripped from legitimately-acquired spinning-discs, so perhaps I haven't tasted the iTunes Store Kool-Aid. I purchased a Chromecast right at launch. As far as I could tell, the only things it did…

My usage falls into three categories: - Netflix (a lot) - Tab Casting (occasionally) - Youtube (very seldom) I suspect that AppleTV would work better for everything except for the tab casting for me. Even with the current limitations, I don't know of another settop box that does that as effectively as the Chromecast. Having said that, I have still been mostly disappointed with the device so far, as tab-casting has be…

Screen mirroring on Apple TV works well, assuming, of course, that you're on a Mac and the OS lines up.

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Post by joshbaptiste »

philsnow wrote: post #187
c0brac0bra wrote: post #75

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You can tab cast Amazon Instant Video from Chrome. I've been successfully using it for months.

tab casting is (still) not supported in linux

I tab cast in Linux fine.. needed the latest build of Chrome at the time currently running 27.0.1453.12 dev.

Re: Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

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Post by mvelie »

tmzt wrote: post #14
mvelie wrote: post #10

The sdk looks nice, but there's certain requirements, like putting the chromecast icon on EVERY screen off the app that is a little bit of a turnoff.

It's not a Chromecast specific icon, it's intended to be used to select which output device to use from a list. This is mentioned in the FAQ where it's referred to as the "Cast" icon.

I agree this might be nice for certain apps, say the Youtube app, where the whole purpose of the app is to show video to the user.

I write a bunch of apps right now that have the ability to show video has one of the many functions of the app. Having to put an icon like this on every screen would take up a lot of screen real estate and I think confuse a lot of our users.

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