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by StavrosK 1836 days ago
This is excellent, finally we'll be able to cast to Raspberry Pis and other Linux-running computers. Well done!
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Will we? Seems like it's an entirely different protocol from Google Cast?
You didn't really have to wait, you could do the same thing with Jellyfin already and any Linux device on your network using jellyfin-mpv-shim
This is basically a reverse Jellyfin. The server is the one playing the stream and the client the one providing it.
Does that expose a Cast device? That's very interesting.
It doesn't expose a Google Cast device. It only allows streaming media from a Jellyfin instance to that device.
Oh, then it's very different from what I want...
Check out Kodi plus the TubeCast add-on. I can cast stuff from the official YouTube app for Android into my Raspberry.
What exactly do you want? If you want to have some device appear in the target list when using google cast in apps then I think you are stuck waiting for Google to (never) open that up.

Edit: although maybe some apps still support DIAL and that might be an option.