Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
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Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#2Was looking for an easy way to send pictures on my computer to my ChromeCast, and thought having a "native" app would be a nice way to do it without having to cast a Chrome tab. Since Google explicitly doesn't make SDKs available for anything other than iOS/Android/Chrome I ended up wrapping a couple of things together in a long little afternoon. Let me know what you think!
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#3Was looking for an easy way to send pictures on my computer to my ChromeCast, and thought having a "native" app would be a nice way to do it without having to cast a Chrome tab. Since Google explicitly doesn't make SDKs available for anything other than iOS/Android/Chrome I ended up wrapping a couple of things together in a long little afternoon. Let me know what you think!
Looks great. I'd use this for videos on my laptop that I want to cast, so definitely looking forward to video support!
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#4Was looking for an easy way to send pictures on my computer to my ChromeCast, and thought having a "native" app would be a nice way to do it without having to cast a Chrome tab. Since Google explicitly doesn't make SDKs available for anything other than iOS/Android/Chrome I ended up wrapping a couple of things together in a long little afternoon. Let me know what you think!
Looks great. I'd use this for videos on my laptop that I want to cast, so definitely looking forward to video support!
That is coming: ran out of time and didn't want to drag my feet on actually releasing it. Video is also complicated: transcoding becomes a real requirement and its just messy to do that in a performant way. But I have something like 40 apps and libraries I've written that are all 80% there but never get released, so for this one I set an explicit rule that it would be released in whatever stable state it is in by the end of July.
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#5If it was for Linux I'd gladly give it a spin.
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#6Looks nice! I've been using https://github.com/googlecast/CastHelloVideo-chrome plus some custom Java code to stream video content for a few months now. I'd love to have something like this as a UI instead of my cobbled mess. Drop me a PM or email @gmail if you want to compare notes. Cheers!
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#7Looks nice! I've been using https://github.com/googlecast/CastHelloVideo-chrome plus some custom Java code to stream video content for a few months now. I'd love to have something like this as a UI instead of my cobbled mess. Drop me a PM or email @gmail if you want to compare notes. Cheers!
Thanks. Will reach out once I get a chance: the video transcoding/streaming will be the real heavy lifting. This was mostly just a node-webkit exercise, but not sure how cleanly it will merge with the Chrome code you linked to.
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#8If it was for Linux I'd gladly give it a spin.
It will be available for Linux (at least Ubuntu): I just need to brush off my old scripts for generating .deb packages and I'll have something. Just didn't want to dawdle and let it fall into my pile of neglected projects.
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
#9Here is a C# library and sample app to send photos to an Apple TV using AirPlay:
Re: Show HN: BigScreen sends pictures and music from OS X to ChromeCast
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Looks great. I'd use this for videos on my laptop that I want to cast, so definitely looking forward to video support!
That is coming: ran out of time and didn't want to drag my feet on actually releasing it. Video is also complicated: transcoding becomes a real requirement and its just messy to do that in a performant way. But I have something like 40 apps and libraries I've written that are all 80% there but never get released, so for this one I set an explicit rule that it would be released in whatever stable state it is in by the…
in that case... congrats on shipping!