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casting any video to Chromecast
Jul. 24th, 2015 09:49 am
I'm getting slightly better/more knowledgeable about how to use this thing. So I got that going for me.
The funny/faceplam thing is that the question I was asking in my last entry actually has a very simple solution. Yet when you do a search for "how to cast your desktop from Chromecast" a bunch of stuff comes up that kinda-sorta works, when in fact the best solution is way simpler. And the "Chromecast 101" page is embarrassingly fluffy.
To be fair, searching for "how to cast any video on Chromecast" might have been better. It depends on your goal... If you literally want to cast your desktop and put something on your TV that's not a video, then another solution might work better. But all I want is be able to cast video from a source that's not necessarily YouTube or stored in the cloud anywhere -- specifically, I want to be able to cast videos that I have stored on an external hard drive that's on my home network but connected to a different PC. (Currently, I'm casting from my laptop to a TV in my room, whereas the hard drive where all my shows live is connected to the desktop PC in my office.)
( Here are the casting methods I've found. )
The funny/faceplam thing is that the question I was asking in my last entry actually has a very simple solution. Yet when you do a search for "how to cast your desktop from Chromecast" a bunch of stuff comes up that kinda-sorta works, when in fact the best solution is way simpler. And the "Chromecast 101" page is embarrassingly fluffy.
To be fair, searching for "how to cast any video on Chromecast" might have been better. It depends on your goal... If you literally want to cast your desktop and put something on your TV that's not a video, then another solution might work better. But all I want is be able to cast video from a source that's not necessarily YouTube or stored in the cloud anywhere -- specifically, I want to be able to cast videos that I have stored on an external hard drive that's on my home network but connected to a different PC. (Currently, I'm casting from my laptop to a TV in my room, whereas the hard drive where all my shows live is connected to the desktop PC in my office.)
( Here are the casting methods I've found. )
