Sorry for the plug, but if anyone is interested, I made a local video player on Chromecast, which transcodes the videos on the fly. <a href="https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo</a> So anything that ffmpeg can convert can be played on Chromecast, not only .mp4 and .webm video.
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?
This already exists at <a href="https://dabble.me/cast" rel="nofollow">https://dabble.me/cast</a>. It was something I threw together just hours after the SDK was released. Mashable picked it up, too: <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/05/vidcast-chromecast-app/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2014/02/05/vidcast-chromecast-app/</a>
Awesome! I literally had put on my calendar, after the SDK came out, that if after two months nobody had made a dead-simple player like this, I'd do it myself. Glad I didn't have to. ;)<p>Suggestion for a next step: wrap it inside an OSX .app or Windows .exe that also launches a local webserver on some random port, so you can stream local media to your Chromecast as well. (I mean, for us developers it's easy enough to set up an instance of Apache, but this would let my grandma use it too.)<p>Edit: question: does anyone know if it's technically possible to cast a <i>video</i> to Chromecast, but leave the <i>audio</i> playing on my local computer? (Necessarily involving some kind of audio delay.)
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.
Neat! I was looking for something like this. I had to use tab casting for some videos like Twit Live which is prone to struggling on low power CPUs and goes down if the laptop sleeps. This allows me to directly send the HLS stream URLs to the Chromecast with no CPU usage on the local machine.<p>Edit: The sleep part is still a problem. But at least it doesn't eat laptop CPU I guess.
Has nobody heard of Videostream?! It plays it with perfect quality without transcoding right as a Chrome App.
<a href="http://www.streamchromecast.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.streamchromecast.com</a>
This 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!
wasn'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<p>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...