[JSadowski]

I've been using my Chromecast to play local content since day one. Then again, I have a whitelisted application that I'm using and I'm not distributing it. There is nothing really stopping developers from developing such services... local content plays fine. Google just doesn't want you distributing them until the dust settles and they lock down their API. If it takes them more than a month or so to do so, or if they then prohibit such uses of the Chromecast, then maybe you have a story, but until then -- geez.

[selectout]

Any chance you'd be willing to put the code up on GitHub so other Chromecast users can just add it locally and whitelist it?

[JSadowski]

Sure... I'll throw up a gist... not the correct way to do it, crappy sender UI, based on early code examples from Google, but it works:

https://gist.github.com/jonathansadowski/6345103

Feel free to use / copy / fork, whatever. Basically, you can send any URL to the receiver, and the receiver then loads that URL in its video element.... that URL can be local, remote, whatever... requires that you have a webserver to serve your local content.