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I was just wondering if anyone could give everyone(myself included) some tips/pointers/recommendations and maybe your own templates that you've used or would use for these extra Dev options in my picture I've included...If anyone can help with all of the options (Label #1) and/or just the bottom set of options (Label #2) that'd be awesome!! The bottom set(#2) is really making me curious about being able to stream local videos from our PC without any extra help from 3rd party sources/plugins/python-related sources. If you can contribute to this, please feel free! Thanks!
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I was just wondering if anyone could give everyone(myself included) some tips/pointers/recommendations and maybe your own templates that you've used or would use for these extra Dev options in my picture I've included...If anyone can help with all of the options (Label #1) and/or just the bottom set of options (Label #2) that'd be awesome!! The bottom set(#2) is really making me curious about being able to stream local videos from our PC without any extra help from 3rd party sources/plugins/python-related sources. If you can contribute to this, please feel free! Thanks!
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As for stream local videos, there is already a solution, it been posted before but not explicitly EpicVS used this to make his python script.
For this method you will Only need one additional thing is Mongoose (if you want to stream local files, otherwise you can stream any HTML5 video that is already posted online), you don't need any Python thing.
1)
This is the Backup files/scripts from (googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ which is no longer available) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2175295&d=1376004871. Unzip The file to your local drive. I just put it on my desktop
2) WhiteList your Chrome (This step is from Google Them-self)
To permit your Chrome sender application to use the SDK, you must register the application's domain in the Google Cast extension for Chrome.
Be sure you are running Chrome version 28 or later.
If you haven't restarted Chrome in a while you may be running an older version; restarting will update Chrome automatically.
In the Chrome address field, enter chrome://extensions, and check the Developer mode checkbox to enable developer mode.
Install the Chrome extension for Google Cast.
On the Cast extension icon in the browser's upper right corner (next to the address field), right-click and select Options.
The Google Cast extension options page opens in a new tab.
On the blue Cast icon, in the page's upper left corner, click four (4) times.
The Developer Settings appear.
In the Cast SDK additional domains field, enter your application's domain, for example, "www.mydomain.com" and click Add.
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So the trick is in the SDK additional domains field put: localhost then click add
3) Now go find the folder from step 1. Download this https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/detail?name=mongoose-3.8.exe and put the mongoose exe in the same folder as step 1
4) Launch Mongoose. (Mongoose will reside in the Taskbar near the clock)
5) Open your chrome browser and type in the address bar localhost:8080. In my case I changed the Mongoose option to port 80. So I only have to type localhost
6) You should be greeted with a webpage now. If you read this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2386604, you should get an idea how this webpage supposed to work.
So the Trick to the original website that Google took down is the Play HTML5 video option. (They took it down so now we have to simulate a webserver to get it back. But there is a benefit NOW. Since you now have an HTML webserver, you can host a local video file.
In my case I move an MP4 movie file or any chromeast compatible video such as MKV into the folder in Step1. And the simple thing to stream that file is in the HTML5 box trick. Now just enter the address "http://yourLocalipAddress:yourmongooseportnumber/yourmoviefile.mkv. So for example mine is http://192.168.1.106/StarTrekSample.mkv since my port is 80, I don't have to put in a port number, it stream great full resolution and everything NO slow down even on a G network
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You can convert stuff pretty fast using MkvToMp4_0.223 it is free. (Note: not all MKV or other files required conversion, some MKV sound doesn't work, this program will fix that)
Also I made an improvement to the HTML code that will let you fast forward. In the index.html (you can also rename it anything, I rename my to cast.html so I can view all the file in the HTML folder, including the movie file, so I can just copy the URL and just type in the IP address)
For the fast forward thing:
1) open the index.htm (you can open it just using notepad, nothing fancy)
2) search for <video id="video" src="" autoplay="autoplay"></video>
3) you will see 2 instants of that code, just replace it with: <video id="video" src="" autoplay="autoplay" controls></video>
This will put a control bar underneath the video screen on your computer so you can fast forward (this only work ONCE before you cast it to your TV). You may have to clear the browser cache before this show up
Also sometime the video will not play in the browser windows, but if you cast it to the TV anyway it sometime take up to 30 secs to 45 secs then it will play. This especially true if you stream a video from an online source.
GreenDroidX said:
As for stream local videos, there is already a solution, it been posted before but not explicitly EpicVS used this to make his python script.
For this method you will Only need one additional thing is Mongoose (if you want to stream local files, otherwise you can stream any HTML5 video that is already posted online), you don't need any Python thing.
1)
This is the Backup files/scripts from (googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ which is no longer available) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2175295&d=1376004871. Unzip The file to your local drive. I just put it on my desktop
2) WhiteList your Chrome (This step is from Google Them-self)
So the trick is in the SDK additional domains field put: localhost then click add
3) Now go find the folder from step 1. Download this https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/detail?name=mongoose-3.8.exe and put the mongoose exe in the same folder as step 1
4) Launch Mongoose. (Mongoose will reside in the Taskbar near the clock)
5) Open your chrome browser and type in the address bar localhost:8080. In my case I changed the Mongoose option to port 80. So I only have to type localhost
6) You should be greeted with a webpage now. If you read this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2386604, you should get an idea how this webpage supposed to work.
So the Trick to the original website that Google took down is the Play HTML5 video option. (They took it down so now we have to simulate a webserver to get it back. But there is a benefit NOW. Since you now have an HTML webserver, you can host a local video file.
In my case I move an MP4 movie file or any chromeast compatible video such as MKV into the folder in Step1. And the simple thing to stream that file is in the HTML5 box trick. Now just enter the address "http://yourLocalipAddress:yourmongooseportnumber/yourmoviefile.mkv. So for example mine is http://192.168.1.106/StarTrekSample.mkv since my port is 80, I don't have to put in a port number, it stream great full resolution and everything NO slow down even on a G network
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Thank you for taking the time to type up all of this valuable info...it works great! Most of my videos are wide screen 720p format. My only gripe so far is that unless I download a video that's in full screen format(not letter-box), it puts it at the top of the screen with a black bar at the bottom of the screen. This can be remedied by just sending a full screen formatted video to the chromecast. It works this way consistent with every single 720p widescreen video I've got. Do you think that if I tried a 1080p video, that it would take up the whole screen? Or at least have the black bar on both the top and bottom of the screen? Just seeing the black bar at the bottom is just quite an annoyance more than anything...I've looked around in my settings on my tv(Sony 51") and can't find anything that'll either make the video take up the entire screen or have the black bars on both the top and bottom of the videos...grrrr
GreenDroidX said:
As for stream local videos, there is already a solution, it been posted before but not explicitly EpicVS used this to make his python script.
For this method you will Only need one additional thing is Mongoose (if you want to stream local files, otherwise you can stream any HTML5 video that is already posted online), you don't need any Python thing.
1)
This is the Backup files/scripts from (googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ which is no longer available) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2175295&d=1376004871. Unzip The file to your local drive. I just put it on my desktop
2) WhiteList your Chrome (This step is from Google Them-self)
So the trick is in the SDK additional domains field put: localhost then click add
3) Now go find the folder from step 1. Download this https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/detail?name=mongoose-3.8.exe and put the mongoose exe in the same folder as step 1
4) Launch Mongoose. (Mongoose will reside in the Taskbar near the clock)
5) Open your chrome browser and type in the address bar localhost:8080. In my case I changed the Mongoose option to port 80. So I only have to type localhost
6) You should be greeted with a webpage now. If you read this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2386604, you should get an idea how this webpage supposed to work.
So the Trick to the original website that Google took down is the Play HTML5 video option. (They took it down so now we have to simulate a webserver to get it back. But there is a benefit NOW. Since you now have an HTML webserver, you can host a local video file.
In my case I move an MP4 movie file or any chromeast compatible video such as MKV into the folder in Step1. And the simple thing to stream that file is in the HTML5 box trick. Now just enter the address "http://yourLocalipAddress:yourmongooseportnumber/yourmoviefile.mkv. So for example mine is http://192.168.1.106/StarTrekSample.mkv since my port is 80, I don't have to put in a port number, it stream great full resolution and everything NO slow down even on a G network
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Have you tried a divx file just to see what happens? "like a downloaded movie" Not a TV show as they are always encoded in mp4 which is streamable by chrome ext default.
This will stream all video at Native resolution, it will def do 1080p, your network won't have too much problem with it. As for file format this is from Google:
Video codecs: H.264 High Profile Level 4.1, 4.2 and 5, VP8
Audio decoding: HE-AAC, LC-AAC, CELT/OPUS, MP3
Containers: MP4/CENC, WebM, MPEG-DASH, SmoothStreaming
Level 1 DRM support: Widevine, Playready
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You can convert stuff pretty fast using MkvToMp4_0.223 it is free. (Note: not all MKV or other files required conversion, some MKV sound doesn't work, this program will fix that)
Also I made an improvement to the HTML code that will let you fast forward. In the index.html (you can also rename it anything, I rename my to cast.html so I can view all the file in the HTML folder, including the movie file, so I can just copy the URL and just type in the IP address)
For the fast forward thing:
1) open the index.htm (you can open it just using notepad, nothing fancy)
2) search for <video id="video" src="" autoplay="autoplay"></video>
3) you will see 2 instants of that code, just replace it with: <video id="video" src="" autoplay="autoplay" controls></video>
This will put a control bar underneath the video screen on your computer so you can fast forward (this only work ONCE before you cast it to your TV). You may have to clear the browser cache before this show up
Also sometime the video will not play in the browser windows, but if you cast it to the TV anyway it sometime take up to 30 secs to 45 secs then it will play. This especially true if you stream a video from an online source.
GreenDroidX said:
As for stream local videos, there is already a solution, it been posted before but not explicitly EpicVS used this to make his python script.
For this method you will Only need one additional thing is Mongoose (if you want to stream local files, otherwise you can stream any HTML5 video that is already posted online), you don't need any Python thing.
1)
This is the Backup files/scripts from (googlecast.github.io/cast-chrome/ which is no longer available) http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2175295&d=1376004871. Unzip The file to your local drive. I just put it on my desktop
2) WhiteList your Chrome (This step is from Google Them-self)
So the trick is in the SDK additional domains field put: localhost then click add
3) Now go find the folder from step 1. Download this https://code.google.com/p/mongoose/downloads/detail?name=mongoose-3.8.exe and put the mongoose exe in the same folder as step 1
4) Launch Mongoose. (Mongoose will reside in the Taskbar near the clock)
5) Open your chrome browser and type in the address bar localhost:8080. In my case I changed the Mongoose option to port 80. So I only have to type localhost
6) You should be greeted with a webpage now. If you read this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2386604, you should get an idea how this webpage supposed to work.
So the Trick to the original website that Google took down is the Play HTML5 video option. (They took it down so now we have to simulate a webserver to get it back. But there is a benefit NOW. Since you now have an HTML webserver, you can host a local video file.
In my case I move an MP4 movie file or any chromeast compatible video such as MKV into the folder in Step1. And the simple thing to stream that file is in the HTML5 box trick. Now just enter the address "http://yourLocalipAddress:yourmongooseportnumber/yourmoviefile.mkv. So for example mine is http://192.168.1.106/StarTrekSample.mkv since my port is 80, I don't have to put in a port number, it stream great full resolution and everything NO slow down even on a G network
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I did exactly as described above using winodws 8.The video plays locally , but when click on chromecast it goes to the TV and I get a blank screen. I get the following error while trying to cast the video. Can you please help me resolve this ...Thanks
Error:
{"eventSequenceId":1,"activityId":"9jpopqye07td","state":2,"contentId":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","title":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","imageUrl":null,"timeProgress":true,"position":5.507666,"duration":0,"volume":0.8,"muted":false,"contentInfo":null,"mediaTracks":[],"error":null,"hasPause":true}
Thanks once again
rajnallan said:
I did exactly as described above using winodws 8.The video plays locally , but when click on chromecast it goes to the TV and I get a blank screen. I get the following error while trying to cast the video. Can you please help me resolve this ...Thanks
Error:
{"eventSequenceId":1,"activityId":"9jpopqye07td","state":2,"contentId":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","title":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","imageUrl":null,"timeProgress":true,"position":5.507666,"duration":0,"volume":0.8,"muted":false,"contentInfo":null,"mediaTracks":[],"error":null,"hasPause":true}
Thanks once again
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your thing is the localhost you need to translate that to your local ip address (you can probably find that in the network center of windows 8, I am still refusing to upgrade to windows 8, so I am on win 7) or simply access your router
For example mine local IP address is 192.168.1.153, to get the video to play you need to put this as your url
http://localhost/Burfi.mp4 -> http://192.168.1.153/Burfi.mp4 (so this way when the URL go to chromecast it know what the heck localhost is)
Oh by the way, that msg is always there. It is sort of a debug msg left in by the original coder, I am guessing it was the Google Team that did it.
GreenDroidX said:
your thing is the localhost you need to translate that to your local ip address (you can probably find that in the network center of windows 8, I am still refusing to upgrade to windows 8, so I am on win 7) or simply access your router
For example mine local IP address is 192.168.1.153, to get the video to play you need to put this as your url
http://localhost/Burfi.mp4 -> http://192.168.1.153/Burfi.mp4 (so this way when the URL go to chromecast it know what the heck localhost is)
Oh by the way, that msg is always there. It is sort of a debug msg left in by the original coder, I am guessing it was the Google Team that did it.
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Thanks for your response. I did try the url as you suggested. But the video plays on the computer. But when I try to cast in to TV I get a blank screen on TV. Waited for more than two minutes. May be somewhere I am doing something wrong.
Just to add when I checked on the chromecast icon in Chrome browser it shows the movie as running on chromecast but nothing on TV.
rajnallan said:
Thanks for your response. I did try the url as you suggested. But the video plays on the computer. But when I try to cast in to TV I get a blank screen on TV. Waited for more than two minutes. May be somewhere I am doing something wrong.
Just to add when I checked on the chromecast icon in Chrome browser it shows the movie as running on chromecast but nothing on TV.
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Strange, well first use another computer with chrome that is on the same network. Try to enter that url into the browser, if that play then the file could be seen. If not then you have a network problem.
Second try to enter a url of a video that is already online. Like the http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 see if that will cast. Just to see if chromecast have a problem
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4
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Strange, well first use another computer with chrome that is on the same network. Try to enter that url into the browser, if that play then the file could be seen. If not then you have a network problem.
Second try to enter a url of a video that is already online. Like the http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 see if that will cast. Just to see if chromecast have a problem
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4
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I did try the url of a video http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 and it works. Chromecast is definitely OK. I can see the movie with the url like the one specified by you play on the computer but when I cast it I see the message on the chromecast icon on the chrome browser showing the movie is running but the tv which switches to the Chromecast hdmi port shows blank on the TV. May be I will try on my daughter's computer...
rajnallan said:
I did try the url of a video http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4 and it works. Chromecast is definitely OK. I can see the movie with the url like the one specified by you play on the computer but when I cast it I see the message on the chromecast icon on the chrome browser showing the movie is running but the tv which switches to the Chromecast hdmi port shows blank on the TV. May be I will try on my daughter's computer...
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Also firewall can be a problem too good luck. Also try different files
rajnallan said:
I did exactly as described above using winodws 8.The video plays locally , but when click on chromecast it goes to the TV and I get a blank screen. I get the following error while trying to cast the video. Can you please help me resolve this ...Thanks
Error:
{"eventSequenceId":1,"activityId":"9jpopqye07td","state":2,"contentId":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","title":"http://localhost/Burfi.mp4","imageUrl":null,"timeProgress":true,"position":5.507666,"duration":0,"volume":0.8,"muted":false,"contentInfo":null,"mediaTracks":[],"error":null,"hasPause":true}
Thanks once again
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I'm not sure if you've figured out your problem yet or not, but just by looking at your post, it looks to me like you have input the wrong "Address" information before the filename. You need to include the port# right after your internal ip address. Such as... http://192.168.1.101:8080/drinkingbuddies.mp4 . You can re-read his instructions below..These are the instructions he outlined above, but I just typed them out in my own words...just don't forget to include the port in the address and you should be good to go!!
1. Rename your video file to something easy like for example... "Chrome.Cast.720p.H.264.2013.WideScreen.Cam.xda-Devs-Rockz.mp4" to something a little easier to remember and easier to type back in such as "chromecast720p.mp4" or simply "cc.mp4" --just for simplicity sake...name it whatever you wanna!
2.. Make sure the .mp4, .mkv, or whatever Chromecast supported video file, has been moved into the same folder/directory as the "mongoose-3.8.exe" , "cast.py" , "angular.min.js" , "index.html" , "demo_app.js" files. I think there's a couple more files in that folder, but you get my drift...
3 Run(double-click) the mongoose-3.8.exe file in that folder. It should start running in the background without any visual GUI popping up in your face. You really don't have to change any settings in mongoose, but if you want to change the port# you can. if you leave all settings the same, I believe the default port# is set to Port# 8080.
4. Locate your INTERNAL IP ADDRESS. This is the IP Address that your router assigns each individual pc/phone/tablet/Chromecast, etc... Mine happens to be 192.168.1.101 . Yours will more than likely be something different than mine, but it will probably be something between the range of: 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.149
5. This is assuming you just double-clicked on mongoose-3.8.exe & did't change ANY settings from within the mongoose server... Open up a tab in Chrome and in the address bar you wanna type this exactly, but without the quotes ---> "localhost:8080"
6. That'll open up the simplified Chromecast testing page...at least if you did everything right so far it should open that page... from this page, click that first little drop down box at the top of the page and select the HTML5 option.
7. In the filename input box that pops up below it, you wanna type "http://yourLOCALipaddresshere:8080/videofilename.extension" . Mine for example, happens to be http://192.168.1.101:8080/drinkingbuddies.mp4
8. Assuming you did everything so far exactly as we've told you, your video should start playing in the tab.
9. Right below your video, you want to click and select your chromecast... after choosing your chromecast, the video from within your chrome browser will more than likely either go blank or it will just look like it's paused. Don't worry though. From my understanding, that's totally normal...
10. Ok, cool...now if everything has been done correctly, you should be able to see the movie playing on your TV. This may take up to a minute to show up on your tv in some instances, due to your router, pc,network traffic, etc...
These steps that I outlined are pretty much the same thing as in earlier posts, just put into my own words. It works just fine for me, I'm just still getting the black bar across the bottom of the TV, unless i change the movie to a full-screen movie. Full-screen movies seem to work just fine and of course, they take up the entire screen. I for some reason still can't get ANY widescreen videos to display properly...there's always a black bar at the bottom and NO black bar at the top. It's like they're "Half-ass wide-screen" format. lol
I get the same error message but the video plays fine. I guess he's got a different problem. I noticed that you need to manually stop the current video in the browser window so chromecast goes to "ready to cast" screen before you can start a new video.
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
swillard said:
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
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Sorry, it works fine for me, and I have the latest update. Maybe reinstall?
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Sorry, it works fine for me, and I have the latest update. Maybe reinstall?
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What do I reinstall? I've reinstalled the cast extension and that didn't fix it. I have the most current version of Chrome. I can only thing to uninstall and reinstall Chrome to see if that fixes the problem.
swillard said:
What do I reinstall? I've reinstalled the cast extension and that didn't fix it. I have the most current version of Chrome. I can only thing to uninstall and reinstall Chrome to see if that fixes the problem.
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I don't know, I don't have the problem.
What about Flash?
swillard said:
When I first got my Chromecast, I was able to play a video (on hulu for example) in fullscreen mode, then alt tab back to Chrome so I could still use my laptop while casting to the TV in full screen.
In the past week, it no longer works. When I alt tab, it automatically goes out of full screen mode. So now I have to have my laptop playing the video in fullscreen if I want to cast it in fullscreen to the TV.
I can't find anything in my searches about this happening to anyone else when I google the problem. Has anyone else run across this issue?
Thanks
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My guess is this is related to the Flash Player or the player on the site that you are using. I have seen this happen on my two monitor setup where when I go to the second screen it breaks out of full screen mode on the first monitor. I'm pretty sure all i had to do was restart my machine. But I would try reinstalling Flash, clearing cache, cookies, etc.
Do you see the same behavior when you are not using Chromecast?
Good luck.
srgibbs99 said:
My guess is this is related to the Flash Player or the player on the site that you are using. I have seen this happen on my two monitor setup where when I go to the second screen it breaks out of full screen mode on the first monitor. I'm pretty sure all i had to do was restart my machine. But I would try reinstalling Flash, clearing cache, cookies, etc.
Do you see the same behavior when you are not using Chromecast?
Good luck.
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It happens with any video, whether casting or not. I used to be able to watch Hulu.com in fullscreen and cast it to the tv, then I could alt tab to another tab to check FB or something. Now it doesn't work. I've tried hulu, youtube, and some other video sites and they all the the same thing. When you hit Alt they immediately go back to the small screen page. I've rebooted my computer and reinstalled the Cast extension. Wondering if I need to reinstall Chrome. It did crash one me a few times this weekend, though not in the past couple of days.
swillard said:
It happens with any video, whether casting or not. I used to be able to watch Hulu.com in fullscreen and cast it to the tv, then I could alt tab to another tab to check FB or something. Now it doesn't work. I've tried hulu, youtube, and some other video sites and they all the the same thing. When you hit Alt they immediately go back to the small screen page. I've rebooted my computer and reinstalled the Cast extension. Wondering if I need to reinstall Chrome. It did crash one me a few times this weekend, though not in the past couple of days.
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I have had a similar issue. I received mine on Tuesday and the first day full screen worked for espn and I was able to Alt+Tab to continue browsing. Last night, I tried to do the same thing but It would only display a picture of the tab with the embedded video (when I would go to full screen, the embedded video was black with the tab content around it. when I would exit full screen the embedded video began playing again.) Essentially, I can no longer go into full screen mode for any flash based video (tried with NFL network too). Mine did an update first thing when I turned it on yesterday. I didn't write down the original version I had nor what it updated to. My flash player also updated recently but I think that was before I tried it for the first time. I did not try to reboot my machine or reinstall flash / chrome but I did attempt to do it from 2 different computers on my network and both suffered from the same issue.
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I have had a similar issue. I received mine on Tuesday and the first day full screen worked for espn and I was able to Alt+Tab to continue browsing. Last night, I tried to do the same thing but It would only display a picture of the tab with the embedded video (when I would go to full screen, the embedded video was black with the tab content around it. when I would exit full screen the embedded video began playing again.) Essentially, I can no longer go into full screen mode for any flash based video (tried with NFL network too). Mine did an update first thing when I turned it on yesterday. I didn't write down the original version I had nor what it updated to. My flash player also updated recently but I think that was before I tried it for the first time. I did not try to reboot my machine or reinstall flash / chrome but I did attempt to do it from 2 different computers on my network and both suffered from the same issue.
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I found a post on another forum that helped me resolve the issue. In your google chrome browser (assuming that's what you are using), type in about://plugins. Click on the Details icon (+) on the far right of the Plugins title bar. Look for Adobe flash and you probably have 2 plugins listed. Look for pepflashplayer.dll . It should be listed in the location section. Click on disable. You may need to restart the browser. Try your fullscreen again.
That fixed it for me, so I hope it fixes it for you.
I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
swillard said:
Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
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i have the same problem. Cant switch tab by using alt+tab
Does anyone has another solution?
ps: i am using mac
swillard said:
Thanks for the tip but I can't get it to work. I have Chrome Toolbox installed, went to Hulu and cast that tab and not getting anything when I hover over the view to pop it out as a separate window.
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It's working now. Thanks for the tip. I can use this trick to cast to the TV and still use my laptop for other stuff.
Toolbox Pop-out link??
Hi guys!
Any chance of a link to the Chrome Toolbox in the app store? The one I'm looking at is probably not the one I'm looking for.
BTW, Alt-Tab is working for me, but the full-screen video is playing in the background so I can see it in place of the Windows taskbar. I can move about the desktop though
hpcolombia said:
I just found a pretty neat trick to do fullscreen.
Install the "Chrome Toolbox" which allows you to open flash videos by themselves, separate from anything else on that webpage.
Go to the page with the flash video you are playing. Cast that tab. Hover over the video and an icon will appear to allow you to put it on its own window. Chromecast will now only show the video, same as if you went fullscreen. Video quality seems better when the window is not minimized.
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Unfortunately Chrome Toolbox doesn't work on Windows 8? And isn't available anymore anyway?
This is really annoying. Just got Chromecast.
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
Fiddling with flash plugins doesn't seem to change it. I looked for other possibly relevant extensions in the web store but none really worked.
This seems to me a fundamental but should be pretty simple problem for Google to fix.
Any other ideas now?
Thanks, Tom
tomwood said:
Unfortunately Chrome Toolbox doesn't work on Windows 8? And isn't available anymore anyway?
This is really annoying. Just got Chromecast.
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
Fiddling with flash plugins doesn't seem to change it. I looked for other possibly relevant extensions in the web store but none really worked.
This seems to me a fundamental but should be pretty simple problem for Google to fix.
Any other ideas now?
Thanks, Tom
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Not sure about Windows 8, but in 7 I am pretty sure I can hit the Windows key + D which will minimize the browser and allow me to continue what I am doing.
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BTW, Alt-Tab is working for me, but the full-screen video is playing in the background so I can see it in place of the Windows taskbar. I can move about the desktop though
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I like that "feature" - my old ATI TV tuner card used to have that.
tomwood said:
But when casting a tab of full screen video on certain websites and I move from the tab it reverts to its original frame.
Basically I just want to be able to play full screen content from sites like BBC's iPlayer while doing other things on the computer.
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It seems to depend on how the player achieves full-screen. Some sites have a full-screen option from the browser level, and that seems to behave differently (also sometimes different resolution) than using the full-screen/zoom option in the player.
Good example is www.BabyFirstTV.com
The blue-background full-screen button just full-screens the video in the tab and shows the Exit Fullscreen button when casted.
The full-screen button in the player window (bottom right corner) make the video full-desktop size (and replaces my desktop background), and doesn't show the (annoying) Exit Fullscreen button. The bottom does get cut off, likely because my desktop is 1920x1200 so I'm losing the bottom 180 pixels.
For me at least, either method allows me to Alt-Tab to another application without messing up the Chromecast playback though.
bhiga said:
It seems to depend on how the player achieves full-screen. Some sites have a full-screen option from the browser level, and that seems to behave differently (also sometimes different resolution) than using the full-screen/zoom option in the player.
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Thanks, unfortunately though for me when using that browser-level full screen video, and I move from the tab, it reverts to its original frame.
I'm using Windows 8 x64 with Chrome Beta 32.
Obskure said:
Hi guys!
Any chance of a link to the Chrome Toolbox in the app store?
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd
Also found another interesting Chrome App....
Turns your Browser into a Chromecast Target that you can stream to!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cr-cast/acmfmindblghbicdipoakcolegkcddbk
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Thanks, unfortunately though for me when using that browser-level full screen video, and I move from the tab, it reverts to its original frame.
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Can you try it on www.babyfirsttv.com ? I'm guessing any browser/tab-level zoom will depend on how the site is coded.
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Can you try it on babyfirsttv? I'm guessing any browser/tab-level zoom will depend on how the site is coded.
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Yeah, if it takes up just the tab it's ok, but when going completely full screen it doesn't stay like that if I move... And unfortunately many sites with video, like the ones I want to use, only have that option.
Hi All,
Brought a chromecast about 2 weeks ago to watch films off a site called showbox. When connecting my moto x 2nd gen to my chromecast the image quality is really poor.... really really poor! The playback is horrid and even swiping screens there is a huge delay. I've tried other apps such like iplayer, youtube etc and they are just as bad.
I couldnt manage to get the "cast screen" option on quick settings to find my device so have had to install app and run that way.
Chromecast does work fine when casting from IOS device's in household.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Darren
Screen casting in my experience is rough no matter the device.
YouTube should be of good quality because the streaming occurs via the Chromecast and not your phone, so I am not sure what is wrong there.
Dan
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dan1431 said:
Screen casting in my experience is rough no matter the device.
YouTube should be of good quality because the streaming occurs via the Chromecast and not your phone, so I am not sure what is wrong there.
Dan
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Sounds like you are screen mirroring everything? That's not a good way to do things. Screen mirroring is a last resort. Any app that is Chromecast compatible use it's inbuilt cast option. The Chromecast will then deal directly with loading a receiver app and getting a good quality stream
For showbox...? Not sure, but if you can open and play the videos in Android Chrome you can direct cast from Chrome. Alternatively if you can copy the stream url use LocalCast or BubbleUPNP to cast from the steam url.
My Moto G 1st-gen is about to get updated to Android 5, so I was wondering if that would enable screen casting to the Chromecast. If it works on the Moto X, I guess it will. But it doesn't sound like anybody is too thrilled with the performance.
In any case, a much better solution for casting from any web streaming app is to see if it has the option to output to "Other" video player. You can choose something like LocalCast or Avia and cast it properly to the Chromecast. That works for the app the OP mentioned, which BTW is not supposed to be discussed here on xda, so keep the discussion generic if you don't want the thread to be locked.
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My Moto G 1st-gen is about to get updated to Android 5, so I was wondering if that would enable screen casting to the Chromecast. If it works on the Moto X, I guess it will. But it doesn't sound like anybody is too thrilled with the performance.
In any case, a much better solution for casting from any web streaming app is to see if it has the option to output to "Other" video player. You can choose something like LocalCast or Avia and cast it properly to the Chromecast. That works for the app the OP mentioned, which BTW is not supposed to be discussed here on xda, so keep the discussion generic if you don't want the thread to be locked.
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Screen casting (from the Chromecast App) works on my 1st Gen Moto G on 4.4.4. I use it a lot to cast photo slideshows with music (something that is still not available on a cast enabled app....why???). Performance is fine for that use case. Noticeable decline in image quality if I make it an animated gif slideshow with music. To be fair I'm also streaming the music/pics to the phone in the first place which is putting additional overhead on the wifi.
Thanks! I did not even notice that the Cast Screen feature had been added to the Chromecast app for my Moto G on Android 4.4.4. It works reasonably well for me even though it says "not optimized". Looks like it came with Chromecast app version 1.9.6 in early December.
I guess I didn't notice when this capability was added because I normally use the Chromecast with my tablet that's on an older version of Android, and the Cast Screen function does not appear on the Chromecast menu there. I'm surprised I didn't see it mentioned more prominently in this forum. I just took a quick look back, and aside from a brief post ending the previous "Experimental" screen casting thread, it doesn't seem like there were any threads about it.
Hi,
I am looking for a way to mirror the screen to an external display while using Gear VR.
I tried screen mirroring (screencast) however when I get to "my videos" the screen blacks out.
any methods ?
I'd appreciate any comments.
Not possible ?
I tried to cast my screen to my Chromecast before inserting my phone into my VR. It will show images in 10 - 15 second intervals. These images are also in a split screen view so not too effective for others to see what you see. Not sure if its just too much for the CPU or what.
Afaik it is currently possible with "MirrorOp".
Check this thread out from the oculus forums: Gear VR S6 Screen Mirroring / Chromecast problem
(especially this posting for setup details)
Best way I found is to use samsung's Sidesync app. It takes a couple trys but it works! You just use the wifi sync and you can mirror the screen over to your pc
Has anyone checked on the Google Home Hub if you can cast your entire screen onto it using the cast icon in the pull down menu on say a pixel phone or some other Android type phone?
no you cannot it work with apps like youtube, movies and other apps that support casting but for some reason casting the entire screen does not seem to work currently
Similar to if you try casting Netflix to the Hub. It does it for about a second, then it seems to remember "that's something I'm supposed to tell the user I can't do," so it stops and says (best HAL9000 voice) "I'm sorry Dave. I don't know how to do that yet."
So CAN it do this (is it technically capable)? Yes. WILL it do it? No.