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You can use LocalCast to cast any video from your phone or internet.
by Kuinox 8y ago
You can use LocalCast to cast any video from your phone or internet.
- miohtama 8y agoI assume it has to re-encode the content. Can you get any decent quality this way, as my gut feeling is that you need beefy CPU/GPU to maintain the framerate?
- throwaway9d0291 8y agoPhones have hardware encoders, the same ones they use for recording video in your camera app.
- rkangel 8y agoLocalcast does not transcode. If you've got MP4 video then it works well, otherwise the chromecast can't display it. Videostream managed by the parent comment on the PC does transcode and so is much more accepting.
- Kuinox 8y agoI never seen a video in the browser not displaying on my chromecast yet. The chromecast can read a lot of encoding...
- rkangel 8y agoI would guess that the chromecast supports the same set of video formats that the video tag in Chrome does - H264, VP8 etc.. If you download a video encoded differently (e.g. DivX) and then try to play it using localcast, you can get issues.
- ComputerGuru 8y agoMP4 is a container, not a codec. You probably meant h264?
- rkangel 8y agoYes, you are being more precise where I was being vague. What I suppose I meant was that in practice, if it has a ".mp4" extension then it'll usually work, and if it doesn't then it usually won't.
- olyjohn 8y agoVLC on iOS will transcode any content that the Chromecast can't handle. It does suck down some CPU, but my iPhone 6 keeps up with it just fine. I can pick just about any file from my SMB share and stream it to the Chromcast from my phone. Still a bit buggy though.