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I own a Chromecast and like all about it except it's ability to play oyur own content. I understand why they forbid it, but for the same reasons I'm using it m

I own a Chromecast and like all about it except it's ability to play oyur own content. I understand why they forbid it, but for the same reasons I'm using it much mroe rarely than I would otherwise. Additionally this could have easily been an addition to the original Chromecast via a simple extractor.

Scaevolus 12y ago
Plex works well with Chromecast to play your own media.
Reebles 12y ago
There are actually many apps that allow you to play local content now. It was pretty bad for a while before they released the SDK though. The two I use are Videostream for Google Chrome, and BubbleUPnP for Android.
- _lce0 12y ago
  Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require? I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..
  - parfe 12y ago
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostream.Mobile&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostrea... Which permissions do you take issue with? I don't see anything like what you claim.
  - Shog9 12y ago
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.apppermission&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.ap... I won't even run the Facebook or LinkedIn apps without locking them down first. Frankly, it's somewhat negligent that this isn't built into the Play Store installation UI.
  - sogen 12y ago
    create a disposable @gmail account
ismavis 12y ago
There are lots of apps that cast your local content, AllCast for one.
gsands 12y ago
Check out the Chrome extension Videostream for Google Chromecast, link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-google-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl?utm_source=gmail https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...
LAMike 12y ago
https://github.com/xat/castnow https://github.com/xat/castnow let's you play local files from the command line

Scaevolus 12y ago

Plex works well with Chromecast to play your own media.

Reebles 12y ago

There are actually many apps that allow you to play local content now. It was pretty bad for a while before they released the SDK though. The two I use are Videostream for Google Chrome, and BubbleUPnP for Android.

_lce0 12y ago
Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require? I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..
- parfe 12y ago
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostream.Mobile&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostrea... Which permissions do you take issue with? I don't see anything like what you claim.
- Shog9 12y ago
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.apppermission&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.ap... I won't even run the Facebook or LinkedIn apps without locking them down first. Frankly, it's somewhat negligent that this isn't built into the Play Store installation UI.
- sogen 12y ago
  create a disposable @gmail account

ismavis 12y ago

There are lots of apps that cast your local content, AllCast for one.

gsands 12y ago

Check out the Chrome extension Videostream for Google Chromecast, link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-google-ch/cnciopoikihiagdjbjpnocolokfelagl?utm_source=gmail https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...

LAMike 12y ago

https://github.com/xat/castnow https://github.com/xat/castnow let's you play local files from the command line