On: Chromecast Support for Firefox

[stavros]

I wrote a library for casting things, called catt:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/

It supports youtube-dl so you can just do `catt cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ` and it will work.

[dmix → stavros]

This looks great. I was using the awful "Videostream for Google Chromecast" chrome app which I found was pretty buggy.

I'll give this a shot...

[stavros → dmix]

I've been using it a lot and it works very well, but it's a cli app. You can get a Chrome/Firefox app that gives you a button on your browser bar and sends the URL to whatever page you want to catt, that's a good way to cast anything youtube-dl supports to a Chromecast.

[dmix → stavros]

It amazes me that Google hasn't made a similar pieces of software for viewing x video format... The fact you have to use weird 3rd party stuff just to watch a movie you downloaded is strange to me.

It would instantly make Chromecast 10x more useful. But Google is focused with keeping it for streaming sites and browser pages only for some reason.

If they want to keep people using the stuff that has ads on it, then you have to make sure it works for every other scenario too. Otherwise people will replace it entirely.

[GuyPostington → dmix]

Videostream is great.

[mrintegrity → GuyPostington]

Try the latest version of VLC, which now supports Chromecast. Works better for me

[greyfox → mrintegrity]

anyone know how to get VLC or any other app to cast downloaded movies to a chromecast that does not have access to the internet?

Is there a way to setup an ad-hoc WLAN between the phone/tab/pc and the chromecast and cast downloaded content?

[_uvvk → stavros]

Thank for writing it! I use catt and I love it!

[stavros → _uvvk]

Thank you, I'm glad you find it useful!