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Casting (almost) any movie or show

I downloaded Avia to see what it could do.
To my surprise it let me play any movie I had on my device.
I started wondering if I could use it as a app to open any video from any app.
I opened Showbox and selected a show. I pressed "use third party player" and selected Avia. The chromecast button still was highlighted and the show came right to my TV after a couple of seconds.
Just a cool discovery if no one found it out yet.

perfctprototype said:
I downloaded Avia to see what it could do.
To my surprise it let me play any movie I had on my device.
I started wondering if I could use it as a app to open any video from any app.
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Avia will cast whatever is on your device. Whether it actually plays on the Chromecast depends on if the video is in a format compatible with Chromecast. You must be lucky and all your media is compatible with Chromecast.

bhiga said:
Avia will cast whatever is on your device. Whether it actually plays on the Chromecast depends on if the video is in a format compatible with Chromecast. You must be lucky and all your media is compatible with Chromecast.
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The movies and shows aren't on my device. They're streaming from an app to my Chromecast.

perfctprototype said:
The movies and shows aren't on my device. They're streaming from an app to my Chromecast.
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I got confused since you said "any video on my device" but same rules apply.
Any app that allows Share should work with Avia as long as the video is compatible and Avia can retrieve it (if it's a link).
Sent from a device with no keyboard. Please forgive typos, they may not be my own.

perfctprototype said:
Just a cool discovery if no one found it out yet.
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This has been covered in another infamous thread about ShowBox.

Casting sopcast live streams

Has anybody figured out a way to cast from sopcast to TV? Using the cast extention for full desktop casting works poorly. I've tried the Android app but there is nothing I could do, like playing on external app like AllCast.
Thanks.

Casting Sopcast would be great!

Would be great, I still haven't found any solutions to cast it.

I asked them the day SDK was published. the answer was:
Hi,
Thanks for you information, we will add this feature in future release.
all bests,
SopCast
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Live Mobile Camera Streaming to Chromecast

Hello,
I have a project where I have to stream live phone camera to Chromecast. It turns out that Chromecast download the content from the internet. Is there anyway to stream locally to Chromecast?
Thanks for your help,
arash

EZCast do it.
It is great app
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionsmicro.ezcast

Thanks for your recommendation.
Indeed, EZCast does what I want. But what I actually want is to implement what EZCast does with more functionality.
Do you know how is it possible with the current architecture of Chromecast to stream video camera stream?
thanks
Dreamer2014 said:
EZCast do it.
It is great app
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actionsmicro.ezcast
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Hi
You have to make the phone as a web server and than make the stream of the camera.
I have made a app thats work like that: Live cast
google play com.dipbox.livecast

turn old device into Chromecast

I have a note 2 with a cracked screen that's too expensive to fix at the mo and was wondering if there's a way to turn it into a Chromecast for my kitchen TV?
I will order a HDMI dongle if it's possible. I'd like it to have Chromecast functionality rather than manually using the device to select stuff.

irish-sid said:
I have a note 2 with a cracked screen that's too expensive to fix at the mo and was wondering if there's a way to turn it into a Chromecast for my kitchen TV?
I will order a HDMI dongle if it's possible. I'd like it to have Chromecast functionality rather than manually using the device to select stuff.
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You can turn it in to a dlna device using bubbleupnp. Install it on the note and on the device your gonna stream from.
It's not the same as chromecast (cast function in apps won't work). But you can stream movies, music, SoundCloud and youtube with it.

r-l said:
You can turn it in to a dlna device using bubbleupnp. Install it on the note and on the device your gonna stream from.
It's not the same as chromecast (cast function in apps won't work). But you can stream movies, music, SoundCloud and youtube with it.
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Cool. Does it all render on the device I'm steaming from or does it pluck it from online like the Chromecast?

irish-sid said:
Cool. Does it all render on the device I'm steaming from or does it pluck it from online like the Chromecast?
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Both, i got an old android tvstick with bubbleupnp installed in my bedroom and i stream stuff from my server, tablet and showbox (last one is a internet stream).
You need to choose a external video player in bubbleupnp on your note to watch movies. I use Archos video player and the free codecpack in the playstore

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Both, i got an old android tvstick with bubbleupnp installed in my bedroom and i stream stuff from my server, tablet and showbox (last one is a internet stream).
You need to choose a external video player in bubbleupnp on your note to watch movies. I use Archos video player and the free codecpack in the playstore
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Well thanks for the help. I'll test it out.

The result from a simple search on google.com "turn old Android into chromecast"
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-an-android-phone-into-a-chromecast-for-free-1131227012

vinaaa said:
The result from a simple search on google.com "turn old Android into chromecast"
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-an-android-phone-into-a-chromecast-for-free-1131227012
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If i'm correct cheapcast doesn't work anymore and development has stopped

r-l said:
If i'm correct cheapcast doesn't work anymore and development has stopped
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Yes, AFAIK the Cast SDK 2.0 release had some device-specific key/identifier requirement that sunk the software emulators.

Stream Downloaded Movies to Chromecast ?

Hey Guys,
Im looking to stream movies that i have downloaded to my SD card from my Tab S to my chromecast. I have All cast which i use for Streaming Showbox, But is there an app that i can get (Paid or not) that will allow me to stream directly to chromecast from my Tab S?
Thanks in advance
I have no problem paying for an app either, What has the best interface and the least amount of bugs.

The Chromecast app itself has screencast. Did you try that?

The best program I can recommend is still Plex , but it requires a PC and software and Plex account... But yeah, if stability isn't important, your first steps should be trying something like BubbleUPNP or Allcast or of course the Chromecast app (but the latter was eternally buggy for me).

I agree, I use plex to stream from my laptop or just the Chromecast app on my iPad.

rushter said:
The Chromecast app itself has screencast. Did you try that?
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Didnt even know that was an option. I try that out

Plex /thread.
Absolutely love it!
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Bubbleupnp is the way!

I have found if screen mirroring works natively, you can use VLC to play videos to the Chromecast while mirroring. Your device is used as a remote while the file is streamed.
Sent from my Nexus 5

There's a ton of apps out there that can cast local media, so screen casting is pointless. One of the better ones and free is Local cast.