[strbean]

And now it's easy to tell my TV to play a Youtube video via my phone instead of just using the remote, but a magnificent pain in the ass / impossible to share my screen to my TV or stream an actual video file directly. Pretty lame outcome.

[angry_octet]

You can share a Chrome tab or your desktop to a Chromecast. Playing a video requires a low enough bit rate and decoding requirements, but it works.

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3228332