

- #CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST INSTALL#
- #CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST ANDROID#
- #CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST CODE#
#CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST INSTALL#
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. Download and install the latest nightly build of future version of VLC Media Player 3.0 from.Here’s how you get to use Chromecast to cast audio and videos to TV with VLC Media Player: In fact, the implementation of Chromecast in VLC Media Player is not polished and not so user friendly too, at least for now. 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.
#CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST CODE#
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.īut 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. 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. 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.
#CASTING FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER TO CHROMECAST ANDROID#
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.Ĭhromecast support in VLC Media Player will allow users to stream media contents that are playable in VLC Media Player to the TV directly. 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.

However, VLC Media Player has a major imperfection, that’s the lack of Chromecast support. 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.
