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by xenomachina 1836 days ago
> the #1 use-case for casting, to play movies that sit on your device (phone, laptop) on your TV

Is it really, though? I've used "casting" many times, and it was always to cast something that was "on the cloud", never something that was on my phone, to my TV. For example, it's a lot easier to find a specific YouTube video with my phone than with my TV remote.
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stuaxo 1836 days ago
I'm guessing this won't work for the "cast" button from my computer or from apps or websites on my phone like Youtube, Vimeo or All Four (the uk channel 4 app).

I like what they've done, but Google has really locked this down unfortunately.

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akvadrako 1836 days ago
Well NymphCast does that too. The 2nd feature mentioned in their README:

> Streaming online content by passing a URL to the server.

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ghostly_s 1836 days ago
I suspect what they mean is digging around in the source of a webpage to find the content url, hoping it's not obfuscated or DRM'd, and passing that; not "passing a URL" in the sense of streaming arbitrary web pages as Chromecast is able to do.
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caslon 1836 days ago
Why wouldn't it be able to do both? youtube-dl has solved that exact use-case for years.
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