Chromecast URL Player
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Chromecast URL Player
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Re: Chromecast URL Player
#2wasn't something like this made in the early days of chromecast & they either shut it down or it broke due to a firmware update? i think it was to stream video content from your personal network to chromecast
hm...... i've been assuming that even tho there's an SDK it is still a turf war. if it's actually open to open source development... woah. many possibilities...
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#3This is exactly what I needed, thanks! Does it stream the video directly, or is there transcoding? I might even be able to stream videos from my home server (which has an HTTP interface) directly!
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#4How is this different from opening the URL in Chrome and casting from it?
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#5How is this different from opening the URL in Chrome and casting from it?
Looks like its streaming arbitrary video URI's without needing to fullscreen the tab
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#6How is this different from opening the URL in Chrome and casting from it?
Doing that requires transcoding and generally has very bad performance for me, this doesn't look like it does that (but I haven't tried it yet).
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#7This is exactly what I needed, thanks! Does it stream the video directly, or is there transcoding? I might even be able to stream videos from my home server (which has an HTTP interface) directly!
There are several Android apps which will stream MP4s to the Chromecast from a upnp/dlna server. I use BubbleUPnP but Avia is another one.
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#8This is exactly what I needed, thanks! Does it stream the video directly, or is there transcoding? I might even be able to stream videos from my home server (which has an HTTP interface) directly!
There are several Android apps which will stream MP4s to the Chromecast from a upnp/dlna server. I use BubbleUPnP but Avia is another one.
Don't you need the BubbleUPnP server for that?
EDIT: No you don't, wow, this is fantastic. Thank you!
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#9I 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?
Re: Chromecast URL Player
#10Sorry 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.