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What does a protocol for casting need that UPnP/DLNA doesn't provide?
by shiandow 2y ago
What does a protocol for casting need that UPnP/DLNA doesn't provide?
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoAren't there issues with latency in the protocol?
- apitman 2y agoIf I have an MP4 video file sitting in cloud storage somewhere, does UPnP/DLNA provide an easy way for me to use my phone to tell my TV to play that file? Also same question but for Netflix.
- shiandow 2y agoNetflix at least could easily provide a link. When it is on a fileshare somewhere, is that something Chromecast can handle? If so it will be essentially serving the file from your device, and I see no reason you couldn't similarly ask DLNA to stream from a server you're running locally. In fact I do very much the same thing regularly (using swyh, quite a useful tool)