Affordable-Laptop - Chromecast on Linux

Chromecast on Linux

Is there any software to cast videos to Chromecast? Can someone share a link to download it?

Thanks in advance.

Affordable-Laptop 23-08-19, 5:10 p.m. dadas

You can use 'google chrome' browser and cast youtube or the entire desktop.

To play a local video through chromecast open your chrome browser and browse to the file with file URL.

Say,

file:///home/user/Videos/myvideo.mp4

Then select cast option from the preference menu and select your casting device. That's all.

23-08-19, 5:46 p.m. Srikant

The video opens in the default video player

27-08-19, 3:23 p.m. varunkumar

@Srikant

The video opens in the default video player and not the Chrome browser. Cannot cast thereafter.

27-08-19, 4:15 p.m. dadas

I just found that VLC has chromecast support, I tried with mine and it works.

VLC-> Playback -> Renderer -> (select your chromecast device).

27-08-19, 10:21 p.m. Srikant