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> Amazon has just responded to Google’s decision to remove YouTube from all Fire TV products I'm sorry - is amazon prime video available on my chromecast now a

> Amazon has just responded to Google’s decision to remove YouTube from all Fire TV products I'm sorry - is amazon prime video available on my chromecast now and I've missed it? These guys are bloody hypocrites. (edit: meant to say 'prime video' on chromecast, previously it just said prime)

kuschku 9y ago
> I'm sorry - is amazon prime available on my chromecast now and I've missed it? It used to be (well, Amazon Prime itself not, but they were working on it, and the Netflix app on Kindles did support it), until Google started constantly changing the (proprietary) protocol to prevent anyone else from implementing it. Currently, the only way to stream to Chromecast is with Google’s proprietary library, which they only license under the Android OEM terms (meaning you have to ship ALL Google apps, set them as defaults, and can’t run your own App Store). This has also completely killed all open source projects that tried to support the Chromecast protocol.
- bubblethink 9y ago
  >Currently, the only way to stream to Chromecast is with Google’s proprietary library At some point the cast extension became a part of the browser. It also stopped working with chromium around the same time. However, it started working again a while later. My chromium on ubuntu can use the cast button. I wonder if it's falling back to chrome's proprietary bits (as in flash, widevine etc.) or if it's actually in chromium. The cast button in the browser is not the same as native chromecast support, but it's something.
lostmsu 9y ago
The question you should be asking is if Amazon stops Google from developing its own Prime client. Because that's what Google does here.
- itsdrewmiller 9y ago
  Does amazon let anyone develop their own prime client? Not sure google being somewhat more open in general is a good knock against them.

kuschku 9y ago

> I'm sorry - is amazon prime available on my chromecast now and I've missed it? It used to be (well, Amazon Prime itself not, but they were working on it, and the Netflix app on Kindles did support it), until Google started constantly changing the (proprietary) protocol to prevent anyone else from implementing it. Currently, the only way to stream to Chromecast is with Google’s proprietary library, which they only license under the Android OEM terms (meaning you have to ship ALL Google apps, set them as defaults, and can’t run your own App Store). This has also completely killed all open source projects that tried to support the Chromecast protocol.

bubblethink 9y ago
>Currently, the only way to stream to Chromecast is with Google’s proprietary library At some point the cast extension became a part of the browser. It also stopped working with chromium around the same time. However, it started working again a while later. My chromium on ubuntu can use the cast button. I wonder if it's falling back to chrome's proprietary bits (as in flash, widevine etc.) or if it's actually in chromium. The cast button in the browser is not the same as native chromecast support, but it's something.

lostmsu 9y ago

The question you should be asking is if Amazon stops Google from developing its own Prime client. Because that's what Google does here.

itsdrewmiller 9y ago
Does amazon let anyone develop their own prime client? Not sure google being somewhat more open in general is a good knock against them.