It is also the simplest and easiest proprietary protocol of any streaming hardware. Unlike screen mirroring, Google Home is a bridge between your smartphone and Chromecast.
The app instructs the device to pick a signal directly from your streaming service. Once its playing, you can pause, rewind, fast forward and adjust the volume right on your phone. Your movie marathon is just a few clicks away. Just about every major video and audio provider is compatible with Google Home. These features come in handy at parties or large gatherings when you want your media to go off without a hitch.
Google Home's application is compatible with recent versions of Android and iOS smartphones, starting with Android 5. Leading amongst its competitors is Amazon Fire TV. The streaming service is similar to Chromecast in that it is also affordable and easy-to-use. The device works together with the same websites as Chromecast but with the addition of Amazon Prime TV.
It stands out from other applications by offering a range of video games. Google Home is leading the way for future streaming services. It has all the features you need for a convenient night of binging series, movies, and music. Best of all, Chromecast is incredibly affordable. Disconnect the current laptop, start casting from another one. It will take only less than a minute. Ready to mirror your screen to your Chromecast? Find out how to set this up here.
You forgot VideoStream for the Google Chrome Browser, which blows all of these low user rating apps away. Been using it for more then a year and the dev keeps adding and refining, support him if you can. I believe he has a five star rating right now. Ignore all the half working apps above. The guy who published this article just searched the Microsoft app store for the term Chromecast, which is pretty cheesy considering the name of the Blog.
Videstream was featured on the blog recently and was present in a page that explained VLC to Chromecast. I have included it here as well. Even more sadly VLC randomly finds your Chromecast sometimes, then works great, but more often than not it does not find your chromecast even though it did the day before, Very frustrating, and posts all across the net about it but they have never fixed it.
They all have pretty much terrible reviews but for one and another is not even available. Note the descriptions are mostly in quotes telling us that they were lifted from the developers own writing. No additional software to install. Play music in Media Player, cast desktop from Chrome. Your email address will not be published.
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Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer. Contents 1 Chromecast apps for your PC 2 1. PlayTo TV 3 2. Chromecast is one of the most used devices in my household. Google continues to add new features to Chromecast, except for one much-needed feature: native support for playback of local content.
Let me be honest, there are some Chrome apps which can play videos stored on your computer, but none offer a desirable solution.
The Chromecast is plugged into the TV in the living room whereas my PCs and hard-drives are in my office. I want the control to be in my hands, while I lay on the couch. The data remains on my PCs and I can use my Android devices to stream content to Chromecast, without having to get up. I am lazy! I have created a local file server on my Linux box, which allows me to access movies, music and images from any device over the local network.
Then I use an Android app which works as a remote to access and stream these files to the Chromecast. And I will show you how to do this, too.
First things first. There are different ways of installing and configuring Samba on different distributions. Step 2: Now we need to add a user to a Samba group so it will have the desired permissions to access the shared data. In this tutorial we are using the system user for samba share. Step 3 Now we have to edit the Samba configuration files to tell Samba which directories are shared.
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