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Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. Also, amazon makes a tablet is "easy dumb way to consu

by nolok 9y ago

Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. Also, amazon makes a tablet is "easy dumb way to consume your media", and while it is not fit for me and probably not for you, it's awesome for the people who know very little and want a recommendation. Yet amazon screwed that up with that move. What does it matter to them if I use their 40e thingy or google's as long as I buy my media on them. Instead it's revert to Google and buy on Google play.

kuschku 9y ago
> Vlc version 4 is now shipping with the ability to cast to a chromecast, without any proprietary library. VLC actually uses a proprietary library for it, but doesn’t ship it. Specifically, VLC asks the OS to activate the secondary display, which leads Android to redirect this request to Google Play Services. This feature does not work on Amazon Kindles, Replicant, LineageOS, CopperheadOS, or any other non-Google Android distributions. Also, for full Chromecast support, you need to use 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:8.3.+' – which, obviously, is proprietary.