Chromecast Apps Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

gerrybbadd · 09-10-2015 10:24am

sheepeater wrote: »

where you think i should talk about this? im really interested in gathering infotmation.

Ty and sorry if im in the wrong topic.

Should i create one?

Ty

Best Regards

Sorry dude, wasn't sniping at ya, it was a genuine question. something i'd be interested in myself tbh.

sheepeater · 09-10-2015 10:31am

Np,

im really interrested in this topic. i allready created one

TY

corkie · 14-10-2015 12:33am

Chromecast Firmware 1.16.44433 (1st Gen)

Now available! Anyone else get it, googling didn't find a changelog but reddit reports it now supports spotify?

petejmk · 02-12-2015 10:01pm

Channel 4's All4 app now working with chromecast

gerrybbadd · 02-12-2015 10:13pm

petejmk wrote: »

Channel 4's All4 app now working with chromecast

Fantastic. Cheers for the heads up

ThisRegard · 02-12-2015 10:32pm

Is it geo locked?

petejmk · 02-12-2015 10:42pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

Is it geo locked?

Nope but does have ads

04-12-2015 11:19am

The ads don't bother me too much with All4 because, realistically, they don't last anywhere near as long as they do on the TV. Delighted that they finally support Chromecast - never understood their indifference to this, despite the fact they stream to Apple TV ...

EDIT:

Went to test it and from what I can tell, some content can be streamed, some cannot. I tried Four Rooms, which wasn't able to, but Four in a Bed worked.

Later episodes of Four Rooms worked. Not sure why recent ones wouldn't.

corkie · 14-01-2016 1:40am

Use chrome to chromecast without the extension.

The chromium team is currently experimenting in Beta Channel with casting tabs without the Google Cast extension installed thanks to the new Media Router¹.

By simply enabling the experimental flag "Media Router" at chrome://flags/#media-router, the Google Cast extension will be disabled and you'll be able to right click on a page and see a new "Cast..." menu (also available in the Chrome menu and in the redesigned Extension Toolbar²).
Toggling off the flag will re-enable the Google Cast extension.

it is also available in stable channel. Trust, me I have it on right now Except it is named differently chrome://flags/#enable-media-router

Taken from here

Tested on both stable and canary versions. Some extensions like videostream will need to be update to reflect this change.

Also reported here

Future versions of Chrome will have Chromecast support built-in

And

Native, Extension-Less Casting Is Currently In Development For Google Chrome

CliCliW · 13-02-2016 12:54pm

Quick question:

My boyfriend has a purchased Sky Sports Mobile TV subscription and bought a Chromecast yesterday in order to stream the playback to our home television in order to watch matches. The "cast screen" Option via the Chromecast app consistently freezes (not only with the Sky playback, but just in general. It happened when I was playing angry birds too).

Is there an app recommended for this instead?

Lovely Bloke · 13-02-2016 6:46pm

Sky don't play nice with Chromecast

CliCliW · 13-02-2016 7:12pm

Baldy Conscience wrote:

Sky don't play nice with Chromecast

I'd he'd known that he would never have gone for Chromecast. He got a HDTV adaptor that also doesn't work, so he's just about at the end of his tether with it all at this stage I think. Somehow we've got it working for now, but it's quite temperamental..

Lovely Bloke · 14-02-2016 9:22am

Sky have all bases covered with mobile apps not playing nice with up scaling to a TV, you'll never find an acceptable solution for this.

Sky don't want people using their mobile services on TV

mightyreds · 14-02-2016 9:40am

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Sky have all bases covered with mobile apps not playing nice with up scaling to a TV, you'll never find an acceptable solution for this.

Sky don't want people using their mobile services on TV

best thing ever to happen was windows allowing screen extension on wi-fi works perfectly with sky go

mass_debater · 14-02-2016 10:15am

Don't stream it from a mobile tablet phone etc as it will be streaming twice over your wireless, once from the internet when you stream it, then a second time while you cast the screen. It's better to use a laptop connected by Ethernet, then just cast to Chromecast over wireless.

Games are very CPU intensive, many devices struggle to cast a game smoothly while playing as they are nearly maxing the CPU with just the game, casting to a screen becomes a step too far

ED E · 20-02-2016 5:18pm

mass_debater wrote: »

Games are very CPU intensive, many devices struggle to cast a game smoothly while playing as they are nearly maxing the CPU with just the game, casting to a screen becomes a step too far

That depends.

With hardware support and the right software you can stream with almost no overhead, the cards inbuilt 264 encoder will do with 1 Watt what a CPU can do with 40W. Just try recording your screen with Fraps then use Afterburners integrated recorder.

JohnK · 25-02-2016 12:42am

Has anyone here come across the Brain Freeze error? Basically, media will stop playing, the screen will show a error message saying brain freeze, and then the chromecast will reboot. I'm sure its down to the fact I've started casting local media from plex on a new device where it would be a direct stream rather than transcoded specifically for the chromecast, just odd that it'd crash after ~90 minutes but if its anything under an hour it seems to be fine - even when multiple hours of content are played in quick succession. I had thought it might be overheating or something like that but after it happened tonight it didn't feel noticeably hotter than usual.

PeteSco · 07-03-2016 12:04pm

I find chromecast to have too few codecs supported, I can play videos on my phone but I can't stream them to chromecast, which makes it useless..

corkie · 07-03-2016 1:05pm

PeteSco wrote: »

I find chromecast to have too few codecs supported, I can play videos on my phone but I can't stream them to chromecast, which makes it useless..

Get an app such as BubbleUPnP that can transcode videos to supported format.

PeteSco · 07-03-2016 1:53pm

corkie wrote: »

Get an app such as BubbleUPnP that can transcode videos to supported format.

But BubbleUPnP isn't totally free, correct?

Sneachta · 08-03-2016 7:54pm

mightyreds wrote: »

best thing ever to happen was windows allowing screen extension on wi-fi works perfectly with sky go

Tell me more....

ftakeith · 23-03-2016 12:51pm

petejmk wrote: »

Channel 4's All4 app now working with chromecast

is all4 still working on chromecast

RichardoKhan · 24-03-2016 11:04am

Used All4 last month to catch up on Deutschland 83 twas fine.........

Discodog · 26-03-2016 9:08pm

RichardoKhan wrote: »

Used All4 last month to catch up on Deutschland 83 twas fine.........

Do you need to register with a UK postcode?

_Whimsical_ · 28-03-2016 11:40pm

Discodog wrote: »

Do you need to register with a UK postcode?

No it's fully available to Ireland.

corkie · 13-10-2017 10:13pm

Control Chromecast with Google Assistant!

[Praise Slow Google] It's now possible to control Chromecast music and TV playback from your phone's Assistant, not just Google Home

^^^ Tested earlier today, was able to pause and resume with verbal commands.

Sorry for bumping an Outdated sticky thread!

Kintarō Hattori · 02-01-2018 11:15pm

Has anyone else been getting delays in audio/video with their Chromecast? I'm using an S7 and an S8 and it's regularly out of sync. Broadband is Virgin Media and it's a 2nd generation Chromecast.

steve_r · 02-01-2018 11:19pm

Any apps in particular? I had issues with Videostream so I switched to Soda player on PC.

No issues on casting android to chromecast 1 (on Virgin media) and from android to Chromecast 2 (other broadband provider)

corkie · 03-01-2018 12:09am

steve_r wrote: »

Any apps in particular? I had issues with Videostream so I switched to Soda player on PC.

No issues on casting android to chromecast 1 (on Virgin media) and from android to Chromecast 2 (other broadband provider)

Thanks for mentioning Soda Player, another alternative app to use. It even found embed subtitles that BubbleUPnP/VideoStream failed to find.

Subtitles maybe sourced from the Net, not embed as I thought, no way to tell which in use.

I was hoping it would work for badly encoded .mkv videos that the other apps had problems with. But unfortunately it didn't work.

I reset my rooter and it worked without problems.

So much for VLC, suppose to have support coming for it, I tried a nightly but it didn't work.
https://www.howtogeek.com/269272/how-to-stream-from-vlc-to-your-chromecast/

Kintarō Hattori · 05-01-2018 2:12pm

steve_r wrote: »

Any apps in particular? I had issues with Videostream so I switched to Soda player on PC.

No issues on casting android to chromecast 1 (on Virgin media) and from android to Chromecast 2 (other broadband provider)

It's been happening with Netflix.

steve_r · 05-01-2018 11:23pm

I've had one or two minor issues with Netflix which I resolved by casting a youtube video and then re-casting the netflix one. Other than that I dunno

corkie · 06-01-2018 12:49am

WARNING: - Not sure but may have gotten adware from soda player.

Proving difficult to remove

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/reimageplus-popup-virus/

Have run Malwarebytes AdwCleaner, twice and rebooted and it keeps popping up.

To remove had to download and use MalwareBytes, to get rid of it.

Anyone have used https://www.reddit.com/r/PowderPlayer/

As an alternative. Would not cast for me.

steve_r · 06-01-2018 2:03pm

Apologies if it came from Sodaplayer.

I ran that scan and I got entries re Acestream, but none of the programs from the list you linked.

Don't use acestream as much now so may get rid.

corkie · 06-01-2018 2:48pm

steve_r wrote: »

Apologies if it came from Sodaplayer.

I ran that scan and I got entries re Acestream, but none of the programs from the list you linked.

Don't use acestream as much now so may get rid.

Don't worry, I know the risks of installing random software.

I scanned the installer file on VirusTotal.

Got reports for : -

Trojan.WisdomEyes
Short Bio

Is a detection for a large family of Trojans that are capable of downloading and running other malware and PUPs onto the affected system.

So more than likely the source of my adware.

corkie · 11-01-2018 7:53pm

corkie wrote: »

So much for VLC, suppose to have support coming for it, I tried a nightly but it didn't work.
https://www.howtogeek.com/269272/how-to-stream-from-vlc-to-your-chromecast/

Gave another nightly a try, and although buggy, got it to cast a video.
Program crashed on trying to transcode avi format.

Version used: - vlc-4.0.0-20180110-0510-dev-win64.exe

batistuta9 · 11-01-2018 11:51pm

I used to use Localcast, worked well, except for audio format ac3.

Think that was a Chromecast issue though, it's a while ago now.
I never DL and cast anymore just use it for YouTube the odd time

corkie · 30-01-2018 5:58pm

VLC for Android (Beta) now with Chromecast support.

Chromecast support (experimental)

Latest Dev Beta VLC on windows has moved the Renderer option to playback menu instead of the video/tools menu.

steve_r · 30-01-2018 6:34pm

corkie wrote: »

VLC for Android (Beta) now with Chromecast support.

Latest Dev Beta VLC on windows has moved the Renderer option to playback menu instead of the video/tools menu.

Nice - waiting for that to come through

Lucas Hood · 30-01-2018 7:45pm

steve_r wrote: »

Nice - waiting for that to come through

Join the beta and you get it straight away.

corkie · 30-01-2018 8:43pm

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Join the beta and you get it straight away.

Think you need to join the google+ community to get the beta.

Lucas Hood · 30-01-2018 8:46pm

corkie wrote: »

Think you need to join the google+ community to get the beta.

Nope scroll down the page on play store.
Hit join beta close play store then there will be an update for app.
Did it myself on seeing your post.

corkie · 30-01-2018 9:35pm

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Nope scroll down the page on play store.
Hit join beta close play store then there will be an update for app.
Did it myself on seeing your post.

I have been on the beta a good while, probably since it was a closed beta.

But here is the correct link to join:- https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.videolan.vlc

corkie · 09-02-2018 5:39pm

Announcing VLC 3.0 release!

Has chromecast support if you didn't use beta/nightly's!

Evil_g · 10-02-2018 4:58pm

corkie wrote: »

Announcing VLC 3.0 release!

Has chromecast support if you didn't use beta/nightly's!

Cool. I've updated, but can't seem to find the cast option. Am I blind, or do I need to install an extension or something?

corkie · 10-02-2018 5:14pm

Evil_g wrote: »

Cool. I've updated, but can't seem to find the cast option. Am I blind, or do I need to install an extension or something?

For windows version, you need to goto the "Playback Menu + Renderer" and select your device there.

I'm using the Nightly Version for windows and chromecast support is still buggy!

Evil_g · 10-02-2018 5:51pm

Thanks! They did a good job of hiding it.

21-02-2018 2:02pm

find VLC 3.0 to be very unstable.
VLC has really fallen behind in the last few years.
Potplayer far better for general video playback and soda player for chromecast use.

Lucas Hood · 21-02-2018 2:17pm

glasso wrote: »

find VLC 3.0 to be very unstable.
VLC has really fallen behind in the last few years.
Potplayer far better for general video playback and soda player for chromecast use.

Sodaplayer isnt on Android is it?

21-02-2018 2:34pm

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Sodaplayer isnt on Android is it?

for from pc to chromecast.

android to chromecast isn't an issue.

Chromecast Apps Discussion - READ FIRST POST!!!

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