The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast Support

alexbilbie wrote: post #7

lmedinas wrote: post #6

Did you reverse engineer the Chromecast protocol ? Or is it opensource now ?

It's open source - https://developers.google.com/cast/

But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app"

So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

Re: The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast Support

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Post by Rexxar » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:14 AM UTC

lmedinas wrote: post #8

alexbilbie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's open source - https://developers.google.com/cast/

But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app" So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

reverse engineering != porting to an other platform

edit: but is it really open source as said by previous comment or is it just an SDK ?

Re: The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast Support

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 8:49 AM UTC

Rexxar wrote: post #9

lmedinas wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app" So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

reverse engineering != porting to an other platform edit: but is it really open source as said by previous comment or is it just an SDK ?

It's closed source. This project uses an open source implementation he wrote himself: https://github.com/insidegui/ChromeCastCore

> This framework implements the Google Cast APIs so they can be used in macOS apps. Google provides an official SDK but it is only for iOS and closed source.