Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome

240 点作者 jdimov10超过 8 年前

39 条评论

kelnos超过 8 年前

I'm still really disappointed that the Cast protocol is effectively closed, and Google only supports casting from Chrome, Android, and iOS.I think Google is really shooting themselves in the foot regarding adoption. I'd love to have a command-line Cast client for Linux, integration into pulseaudio, a Firefox Cast extension, a native UI (non-browser) video player, etc. Sure, some people have reverse-engineered the newer protocol, but I've never gotten any of the unofficial clients to work reliably (and some just flat-out don't work at all).

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niftich超过 8 年前

There was formerly a Google-made addon for this. Now it's integrated into Chrome. There are two features here:- Chrome can stream its renderer output to a 'Google Cast'-supporting stream sink, like a Chromecast. This option is buried in the hamburger menu.- websites can be coded against a JS library that's implemented by Chrome [1][2]. Then the 'stream to...' menu is shown as the 'cast' icon near the address bar.[1] <a href="https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/chrome/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/reference/chrome/</a>[2] <a href="https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/chrome_sender</a>

realityking超过 8 年前

I love Chromecasts and brining Google Cast into Chrome made me quite happy since the integration with Hangouts (you can cast a tab into a hangout if the meeting is part of your Google Calendar) is terrific.However as someone who helps out with the company's network, they are infuriating:- They ignore the DHCP given DNS Servers instead using Google's. I'm sure the same is true for NTP though I haven't bothered testing that.- They use mDNS and DNS-SD but not DNS-SD Wide Area Discovery. This makes subnetting more difficult and increases broadcast traffic quite a bit.- Not a complaint, more a wish, but a PoE version of the Ethernet adapter would be immensely helpful.

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vertis超过 8 年前

Recently I moved house. I had to wait 6 weeks for the internet to be connected (first world problem). While I was waiting for the connection I inevitably tried to fall back on local content and discovered, much to my discontent, that my Chromecast wouldn't work at all without internet, even when I was trying to play local content.I've been less happy with it ever since.

rektide超过 8 年前

Looking forward to some standardization/interop coming out of this. There's Presentation API[1], which spec's a web API, but that still leaves open the question of coordination between a controller (browser) and display. Chrome's working on it[2], and I'd guess would target Cast, so web pages might be able to request their own casting, but it doesn't seem like anything other browsers could compete/cooperate openly with atm.[1] <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/presentation-api/" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3.org/TR/presentation-api/</a>[2] <a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EPresentationAPI" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component...</a>

joemccall86超过 8 年前

Assuming they drop support for the Chromecast add-on, doesn't this effectively eliminate the ability for other browsers that can use chrome extensions to cast to a Chromecast? (e.g., Opera, Vivaldi, maybe Chromium)?

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gscott超过 8 年前

Looking at WireShark last night Google Cast was reaching out to Google every 30 seconds. I narrowed it down to my web browser, removing it from the toolbar stopped it.

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chatmasta超过 8 年前

For anyone who hasn't seen it, check out the "peerflix" project on github. It's an amazing way to stream torrents, and you can easily cast them from chrome.Basically you just do:<pre><code> peerflix 'magnetUrl' </code></pre> And then navigate to <a href="http://localhost:8888" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:8888</a> and cast the tab.Unfortunately it only works with MP4. There may be some workarounds with an ffmpeg command in the middle, but I haven't experimented with it much.

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jeffdubin超过 8 年前

Nice job, thank you! Now... how can I disable it? Next time I'm on a public wifi network, this is going to be sending out probes for Chromecast devices, and it's only a matter of time before someone finds an exploit.

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israrkhan超过 8 年前

Few months ago, I bought a Nexus 5x assuming that it will support Miracast (like Nexus 5 did). I was very disappointed to know that Google dropped support for Miracast. re-enabling Miracast support was just a matter of changing a line in a config file. However that required rooting the device.Dropping support for standard protocols and forcing users to use their proprietary stuff? what happened to their corporate moto "Don't be evil".

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greggman超过 8 年前

Chromecast if left on (using the included power adapter) will use about 14gig of bandwidth downloading images for its background that you can not turn off. As someone on a metered MiFi that's a no go.

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spike021超过 8 年前

Not sure how related this is, but my parents have a one or two year old Samsung "Smart" HDTV. It doesn't have Chromecast built in, but it does have Youtube, Netflix, and a few other "apps".I thought it was really cool one time when I was visiting during a SpaceX launch and experimental sea landing because I was able to swap from watching live via Youtube on my laptop to casting it to their HDTV. That was just by pressing the cast button and selecting their TV, which was automatically in the list without me doing anything.It's awesome that Google's made this more convenient and I think it'll be something useful for a lot of people.

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biot超过 8 年前

<pre><code> "people have casted more than 38 million times from Chrome, watching and listening to more than 50 million hours of content." </code></pre> So Google is monitoring your watching habits. What other information do they collect as part of this? Are these details documented in a privacy policy somewhere?The setting chrome://flags/#disable-cast-streaming-hw-encoding only appears to toggle hardware encoding or not. Can it be disabled altogether?

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Nullabillity超过 8 年前

> and partnered with other manufacturers to make Cast-enabled TVs and speakers.WTF? Just publish the damn API already.

skrowl超过 8 年前

I wish I could easily cast from Firefox or another privacy-respecting browser

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eof超过 8 年前

Since this has happened my (gen 1) chromecast experience has gone almost totally to crap.The built in functionality is supposed to be smart about down scaling for wifi speed, and thus has removed all options to do it manually; unfortunately it utterly fails (I believe because wifi speed is fine but the bitrate is too high for the hardware).Lots of people don't like this update. <a href="https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromecast/5IG1ClAapLc/3pCqFStfEAAJ" rel="nofollow">https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromecast/5IG1...</a>Streaming from my android is also much worse, with high bitrate streams that I used to consume regularly no longer working at all (e.g <1 fps).I have been extremely happy with my chromecast until the last few months, and it honestly has become something I really dislike now.

flavor8超过 8 年前

Any chance for "reverse cast"? I would love to be able to cast from supported apps in my phone to a tab in my browser.

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microcolonel超过 8 年前

If this means it's in the Chromium source tree, I'm very happy. Then there is an open source Google Cast client maintained by Google proper.And it looks like that's exactly what they've done. <a href="https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/media/cast/?q=cast&sq=package:chromium" rel="nofollow">https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/media/cast/?q=cast&sq=p...</a>No more needing to guess how to implement non-deprecated versions of the API when integrating with other players.

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obilgic超过 8 年前

So now its called Google Cast, not Chromecast?

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RevBooyah超过 8 年前

All in an effort to reduce its memory footprint...

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surlyadopter超过 8 年前

" In the past month alone, people have casted more than 38 million times from Chrome, watching and listening to more than 50 million hours of content."Apologies for the stupid question, but how exactly does Google know this? Is there some "send statistics home" function in the browser?

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askvictor超过 8 年前

And yet, despite Google making a strong play for the education and corporate markets, Chromecast still doesn't work on enterprise wireless networks, effectively cutting out any use in those spaces.

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johnnyo超过 8 年前

I hope Amazon FireTV supports this soon, or supplies a client. I've already got several of these sticks, and I'd love to be able to cast a tab up from somewhere on my network.

chrissnell超过 8 年前

It seems like Cast would be an inferior way to stream HD content to a TV for many users. If the source host is wifi-connected, you're tripling the amount of traffic that's passed through your access points: once from the content source (e.g. Netflix) to the laptop via the AP, then presumably from the laptop to the AP and back out to the Chromecast device.

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leeoniya超过 8 年前

remembering my wtf from debugging phantom console errors:<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24490323/google-chrome-cast-sender-error-if-chrome-cast-extension-is-not-installed-or-usi" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24490323/google-chrome-ca...</a>

a_thro_away超过 8 年前

It appears that Google will eliminate Chrome "packaged apps" in the next year; do I understand these to be locally installed apps? (I don't know Chrome). All apps after that must be on (a service?) the web. What could be the reason behind this?

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tiles超过 8 年前

Since Google Cast has been open-sourced (upstreamed to Chromium), does this make it the de-facto alternative to Miracast? My Roku supports screen mirroring, but the fact that apps and companies are more keen on supporting ChromeCast has been frustrating.

mashlol超过 8 年前

I really want a feature that would allow me to cast from my phone to my desktop. I have a big TV plugged into my desktop but I can't cast to it from my phone, I have to remote in and manually control the desktop, it's painful.

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dvcrn超过 8 年前

I was surprised to hear that not many people knew that Safari does something similar (kind of) with AirPlay. A lot of videos and content (on YouTube for example) can be Airplayed when using Safari, but not when using Chrome or Firefox.

balls187超过 8 年前

Thank you for the extra and unnecessary bloat on the main browser I use for work.

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sfifs超过 8 年前

So will it work on Chrome for Android? It's not been available there yet.

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dingo_bat超过 8 年前

The time is coming for me to switch back to Firefox.

Vexs超过 8 年前

Can't say I'm surprised. It's built into android now too, and the cast extension has been showing a lot of change recently.

breakingcups超过 8 年前

Yet for some reason the ability to cast HTML5 video's from my Nexus 5 has silently disappeared for months without a fix?

rblatz超过 8 年前

I'm hoping that the Sonos event tomorrow includes an announcement about supporting the audio portion Google Cast.

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agumonkey超过 8 年前

I don't know if it's related but chromecast was a bit buggy. Reboot level buggy.

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ForFreedom超过 8 年前

Can I cast a video playing on vlc or is it only from the browser?

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Angostura超过 8 年前

Anyone know if this includes the iOS version?

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denzil_correa超过 8 年前

I am unable to mirror Chromecast from my Mac. Basically, it mirrors the video but does not mirror the audio.

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