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Stats Cast with MkChromecast Cast with MkChromecast WebCast WebCast
User count 80,000+ 29,751+
Average rating 3.19 3.64
Rating count 67 160
Last updated 2018-03-02 2014-06-02
Size 5.59K 60.92K
Version 0.0.1 0.2.1
Short description
Casts videos in pages like youtube via MkChromecast Finds videos in the web page you're on and allows to send them to Chromecast.
Full summary

Casts videos in pages like youtube via MkChromecast Right-click links and pages to cast videos. Works on nearly every website thanks to youtube-dl.

Powered by play-with-mpv which requires several dependencies, see website for more info.

  1. Install this chrome extension
  2. Install Python 2 or 3 and pip
  3. Install MkChromecast: pip install git+git://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast --user
  4. Install server: pip install git+git://github.com/thann/play-with-mpv --user
  5. Run server: play-with-mpv or use linux shortcut
  6. (optional) Autostart on linux: cp ~/.local/share/applications/thann.play-with-mpv.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

WebCast extension detects video files in .mp4 format that are played on the page, and allow to send them to ChromeCast device. Whenever extension detects supported video file being played on the page, it will add page action to your omibox that allows to play video on Chrome Cast device. This version of plugin opens video file in external website, that has video player supporting ChromeCast.