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Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by vigneshv_psg »

delive wrote: post #38

Question - is it possible to have Chromecast play urls directly to flash files? For example youtube gives out embedded links such as "www.youtube.com/embed/26UvdxUII-0". I realize that isn't a .swf file url, but it works in my browser. Since youtube already has an app that plays to chromecast.. I'm more thinking of random flash players on websites.

No, chromecast cannot play flash videos. But you can extract the URL of the videos from common swf based players like JWPlayer using a tool like youtube-dl [1] and then use that URL to playback the content in chromecast. This will probably make a good chrome extension.

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by mmind »

CSDude wrote: post #10

Sorry for the plug, but if anyone is interested, I made a local video player on Chromecast, which transcodes the videos on the fly. https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo So anything that ffmpeg can convert can be played on Chromecast, not only .mp4 and .webm video.

Thanks for sharing. You should post it in the group for cast developers: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11574215756910358545...

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by joshmlewis »

parterburn wrote: post #35

This already exists at https://dabble.me/cast . It was something I threw together just hours after the SDK was released. Mashable picked it up, too: http://mashable.com/2014/02/05/vidcast-chromecast-app/

That's an interesting URL...I remember using that last year.

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by rochak100 »

vigneshv_psg wrote: post #41
delive wrote: post #38

Question - is it possible to have Chromecast play urls directly to flash files? For example youtube gives out embedded links such as "www.youtube.com/embed/26UvdxUII-0". I realize that isn't a .swf file url, but it works in my browser. Since youtube already has an app that plays to chromecast.. I'm more thinking of random flash players on websites.

No, chromecast cannot play flash videos. But you can extract the URL of the videos from common swf based players like JWPlayer using a tool like youtube-dl [1] and then use that URL to playback the content in chromecast. This will probably make a good chrome extension. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

thanks, please can someone give more basic instructions on how to do this. I for e.g. love a cricket streaming site (flash based www.crictime.com). How do I extract the video url to play on chromecast?

thanks much.

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by vigneshv_psg »

rochak100 wrote: post #44
vigneshv_psg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, chromecast cannot play flash videos. But you can extract the URL of the videos from common swf based players like JWPlayer using a tool like youtube-dl [1] and then use that URL to playback the content in chromecast. This will probably make a good chrome extension. [1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

thanks, please can someone give more basic instructions on how to do this. I for e.g. love a cricket streaming site (flash based www.crictime.com). How do I extract the video url to play on chromecast? thanks much.

the particular example that you want seems to use eplayer. it seems like it's a livestream and uses some proprietary protocol and is not as simple as fetching data from a URL and playing it back. So it's unlikely that you'll be able to watch this particular site for chromecast unless they (either crictime or eplayer) decide to publish an app that implements their proprietary protocol for chromecast.

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by rochak100 »

vigneshv_psg wrote: post #45
rochak100 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks, please can someone give more basic instructions on how to do this. I for e.g. love a cricket streaming site (flash based www.crictime.com). How do I extract the video url to play on chromecast? thanks much.

the particular example that you want seems to use eplayer. it seems like it's a livestream and uses some proprietary protocol and is not as simple as fetching data from a URL and playing it back. So it's unlikely that you'll be able to watch this particular site for chromecast unless they (either crictime or eplayer) decide to publish an app that implements their proprietary protocol for chromecast.

thx for your quick reply. obviously a disappointment!. Please can you also tell how could i use the youtube-Dl link you gave away to extract url from flash based sites? Also is there a way to play live videos from youtube in chromecast. Currently, live streams in youtube appear to be unsupported?

thanks again!

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by foobarqux »

CSDude wrote: post #10

Sorry for the plug, but if anyone is interested, I made a local video player on Chromecast, which transcodes the videos on the fly. https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo So anything that ffmpeg can convert can be played on Chromecast, not only .mp4 and .webm video.

Can this be publicly hosted if you already have a compatible video and remove the transcoding?

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by kbenson »

caio1982 wrote: post #9

I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got really afraid of saying so as disagreements about popular techs in HN usually result in downvoting. Offtopic: is it just me who feel like that and often avoid commenting?

If you are worried about downvotes, be more subjective. If you mention you had bad experiences with the feature, or whenever you used it it didn't meet your needs, or ask if anyone knows a way to work around the limitations you are seeing, you're pretty safe. If you come out with a definiteive statement such as "it has crappy subtitle support" you are going to have your comment assessed differently. You'll probably get more votes, up or down depending on how many people agree or disagree with you, but that's the nature of polarizing statements.

It's not that different than speaking in person actually, except you don't have to pay attention to the reactions of others to see how your statements went over (in aggregate).

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by chinpokomon »

untog wrote: post #23
caio1982 wrote: post #9

I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got really afraid of saying so as disagreements about popular techs in HN usually result in downvoting. Offtopic: is it just me who feel like that and often avoid commenting?

You didn't want to comment because you don't want to be downvoted? Yeah, I don't think that's rare. Although posting a comment saying that you decided not to comment because everyone would downvote you is likely a very good way of... getting downvotes.

And while we're completely derailed, is getting down voted such a big deal?

Say what you want and how you think, but be prepared to support your position with something more then conjecture and posturing. If in spite of providing support for your well articulated and argued position, you receive down votes, hopefully someone has left a reply that will help you to understand why others disagree with you. Take it as a learning opportunity. You don't have to change your opinion, but use what you learn to help you write your next comment.

Dissenting opinions on their own won't usually give you down votes, but unsupported inflammatory remarks will.

Re: Chromecast URL Player

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Post by caio1982 »

vigneshv_psg wrote: post #29
caio1982 wrote: post #9

I was going to say that I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles but then I got really afraid of saying so as disagreements about popular techs in HN usually result in downvoting. Offtopic: is it just me who feel like that and often avoid commenting?

> I'd love to use all these neat Chromecast tricks but I can't because of its (native) poor support for external subtitles author here. yes, i have been working on adding subtitle support to this web app as well (you paste two urls, one for the video and one for the srt file). chromecast supports WebVTT [1] and it's pretty straightforward to convert srt to WebVTT. Although, it requires using a custom receiver app. st…

Dude, that's great, you'd be fixing a real issue that Chromecast has (in my opinion). I'll check it regularly to see how it goes, thanks for the effort :-)
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