VLC Media Player is one of the most versatile and powerful media player available, where its major attracting advantage is that it can play almost every media files throw at it, as VLC Media Player has built-in codecs for almost every media formats.
Cast Windows Media Player Audio to Chromecast Audio. They just keep telling to cast a tab from the Chrome browser, I repeat the question and they give me the same answer - 30 mins wasted! I've installed the extension in Chrome, can open a single MP3 (ctrl + o) and it plays - so all the connectivity seems to be working, I just can't figure. Install Google Chrome Cast Extension Open chrome or a new tab, and then connect your chrome browser to Chromecast Drag and drop the video/audio file you want to play into the Chrome browser Click. Jul 03, 2017 You could also play the video in another application on your desktop, such as VLC or another media player. Click the Google Cast icon in Chrome, click the down icon next to your Chromecast, and select “Cast Entire Desktop”. Make the video go full-screen and it’ll stream to your Chromecast. If you are curious, you may try Avia Media Player (Chromecast), or Plex, or the RealPlayer Cloud. Actually, you can use Chrome browser to stream local video to Chromecast. Any videos that can be played on your PC can be played on your TV now. You do not need any. How to Stream & Cast to Chromecast in VLC Media Player. Chromecast is currently available for Windows (32 bits) and Windows (64 bits) only, so if you’re using macOS, Linux, Ubuntu, iOS or Android, you can try to download and install to see if Chromecast support has been added to one of the nightlies.
However, VLC Media Player has a major imperfection, that’s the lack of Chromecast support. Chromecast is a media streaming device in a small dongle format that plugs into the HDMI port on the HDTV, and instantly transforms the TV into a big screen for playback of Internet-streamed or locally stored audio/visual content. User can initiate and control the playback on a mobile device or personal computer on web apps that support the Google Cast technology, or mirror the content Google Chrome web browser running on a personal computer, as well as from the screen of some Android devices.
Chromecast support in VLC Media Player will allow users to stream media contents that are playable in VLC Media Player to the TV directly. The developer on VideoLAN has been working on Chromecast support for a while, and the feature is expected on VLC Media Player version 3, which is currently under active development.
While VLC Media Player 3.0 is still been developed, interested users can now download the bleeding edge versions of VLC Media Player and enjoy the Chromecast media casting for audio and video files, which is still in its infancy. VideoLAN publishes a new experimental build of VLC Media Player 3.0 every night in its nightly builds branch, and available for download by everybody for free.
But do note that nightly builds are generated from the VLC code that is currently in development, so it does contain plenty of bugs, problems and issues. It can be seen from the Chromecast support, which is detailed in the this tutorial, which is unstable, and may or may not work on your system or for different types of media files, and failure to cast DVD and Blu-ray. In fact, the implementation of Chromecast in VLC Media Player is not polished and not so user friendly too, at least for now.
Here’s how you get to use Chromecast to cast audio and videos to TV with VLC Media Player:
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- Download and install the latest nightly build of future version of VLC Media Player 3.0 from http://nightlies.videolan.org/. Chromecast is currently available for Windows (32 bits) and Windows (64 bits) only, so if you’re using macOS, Linux, Ubuntu, iOS or Android, you can try to download and install to see if Chromecast support has been added to one of the nightlies.
- Turn on the Chromecast (by turning on the TV and/or power adapter for power to Chromecast, if applicable).
- Run the VLC Media Player 3.0.
- In VLC Media Player, go to Video (in the menu bar) ->Renderer, and enable Scan (tick will appear before Scan when enabled) so that VLC can start scanning for casting devices on the same network.
- Then, go to Video ->Renderer again, and select the Chromecast device that appears in the list (normally below <Local> entry) so that VLC can connect to the Chromecast.
- Open a video or audio file in VLC Media Player, and play the media. VLC will cast and stream media directly to the Chromecast for viewing on TV.
The very first time you attempt to cast to Chromecast, an “Insecure site” prompt is shown.Click or tap on View certificate to display the Chromecast’s security certificate. And, select Accept Permanently so that VLC does not prompt you anymore until the certificate expired.In addition, Windows Firewall may prompt you to it has blocked some features of VLC Media Player and asks you to allow VLC to bypass firewall and communicate with private networks. Click or tap on Allow access.
Once VLC Media Player begins to cast the media to Chromecast, user can control the playback with the VLC, such as pause, rewind, fast forward, skip and etc.
On a post we shared a bunch of tips and tricks about streaming with Chromecast, the best gadget in $35, we shared that you can basically drag and drop the video files into Chrome browser and Chromecast from there. While you can do so on video types such as MP4, you probably will find difficulty doing the same on other video formats like MKV.
You may get lucky on some of the MKV files because they are encoded in a way that Chrome supports out of the box but to most of the MKV files, when you drop them into Chrome you will most likely end up downloading them into your download folder, rather than playing them inside the browser.
So, here are 2 quick tips that may help you if you already have tons of MKV files in your library. Assume you already have Chromecast extension installed and enabled in your Chrome browser, all we need to get done is to make the MKV videos play inside the Chrome browser. And once we do, we can then simply click the Chromecast extension icon and cast it onto your TV.
First, just simply rename it to .MP4
Well, yes, it’s just that simple, at least on my computer. Renaming a .MKV file to a .MP4 seems to trick Chrome to treat a MKV file as a MP4 file so it plays smoothly without any trouble.
Second, install VLC media player
If renaming doesn’t work, you will need a proper media player plug-in installed and enabled. I tried DivX Plugin, but that doesn’t seem to be a good approach. The famous VLC media player happens to be a much better one. If you already have Chrome browser installed, installing VLC media player will install a VLC media player plugin for Chrome automatically. You can go to chrome://plugins/ to double-check and change the settings such as Always allowed.
If option Always allowed is not checked, you will need to give the permission to VLC media player plugin the rights to run.
Click either of the buttons underneath the address bar, and here we go. Enjoy.
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If neither of the options described above works for you, especially hearing no sound on some of the MKV files, here is another one you can try.
There is a Chrome App called Videostream for Google Chromecast that lets you play your own local videos on your Chromecast from your PC with subtitles supported. Not like those Chrome Extensions, it’s a Chrome App that you can launch directly from your desktop through Chrome Launch.
Just launch the app, choose a video, select a Chromecast, and enjoy. Easy as 123.
If you get a prompt saying there is some firewall related issue that’s preventing the video from streaming to Chromecast, you can either click the Download button right beneath the message to download a fix to repair your firewall setting. Or you can go to Control Panel → System and Security → Windows Firewall, and click Restore defaults to reset all your Windows Firewall settings, which will most likely fix the firewall issue you are having.
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If Videostream stopped working all of sudden, here is how to fix it.
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If you don’t use Chrome browser, AirFlow is going to be your best friend for the time being. It’s a free desktop app available for both Windows and Mac that supports many different video format, MKV included. Simply install the app and drag & drop the file you want to play on to the app. Click the Cast button at the top to connect to your Chromecast device.
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Google Chrome Cast Windows Media Player
VLC released a new version 3.0 that has natively supported Chromecast. Play the video, right-click the scene and choose Playback > Renderer, and select the Chromecast you want to stream to.
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