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Are you aware of any that support the "play this URL" use case I talk about in the blog post?
by anderspitman 7y ago
Are you aware of any that support the "play this URL" use case I talk about in the blog post?
- Mindwipe 7y agoA Sony Android TV would - you could paste the URL into either VLC or the Internet Browser provided with the TV using the Android TV remote app on your phone, as you can paste into that.
- anderspitman 7y agoAh so you can just cast whatever is on VLC? That was the first thing I tried with Roku but my TV doesn't support it, and I was disappointed there wasn't any VLC companion app.
- Mindwipe 7y agoWell, VLC does have casting, but here I more meant you can run VLC on the TV itself, and you can enter a URL directly into VLC on the TV itself. While that's a bit clunky, if you use the remote app on a phone you can enter keyboard data and, most importantly, paste keyboard data from your phone into an input field on the TV itself. So no casting would be required. Kodi would also enable the same use case.
- anderspitman 7y agoWait does Roku have a VLC app? I swear I checked for one.
- Mindwipe 7y agoNo, I mean for Android TV in all cases above. I don't think this is a use case on Roku. Roku has zero international market share, so I don't think there's much of a developer market for it.
- emmelaich 7y agoThis may help https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabidgremlin.web2cast https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabidgreml...
- dan_hawkins 7y agoVLC for AppleTV: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-appletv.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-appletv.html