(2013-12-11, 09:30)natethomas Wrote: (2013-12-11, 06:39)Asphyx Wrote: While getting XBMC to act as a Chromecast seems nice we already have plenty of Play to XBMC options to do that.
We do?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...bden?hl=en
Works with Hulu and many other content providers...No it doesn't work with NetFlix or Amazon but the Chromecast does work with Netflix already so pick your redundancy there...
(2013-12-11, 10:11)nickr Wrote: I don't think that's what he was referring to, but then again there is so much woolly thinking about this type of functionality that it is hard to know! I thought he was referring to sending something in your xbmc library to another xbmc machine.
Nope I want to either Mirror the XBMC Screen from my HTPC to any Cast Enabled TV, or at minimum be able to dual cast content that is currently playing on XBMC at that moment.
(2013-12-11, 12:45)freezy Wrote: Just ordered the dongle and will be playing around with it. The goal would be to be able to stream stuff from XBMC to any cast-enabled TV via the Android remote control. I'll open another topic as soon as I have something working.
Great News Freezy any help I can provide feel free to ask. The main issue will be in creating the proper stream as the codec options are limited on CCast. Some transcoding might be required but FFMPEG can probably be used to get there.
(2013-12-11, 18:57)awp0 Wrote: (2013-12-11, 06:39)Asphyx Wrote: I personally would like XBMC to be able to send to chromecast. This way if I'm in the middle of a movie but need to go downstairs I can send the content to another TV without missing anything.
FWIW, you can accomplish this use case in XBMC with any number of low-cost hardware options like the raspi or an android stick. It may be slightly different that what you're describing though. Rather than "pushing" a movie to the downstairs TV, you would "resume" the movie on that TV. Depending on what you have now, it may require a more complex configuration, but it works pretty well.
Also, since I don't think it's been mentioned here, Plex just started supporting the Chromecast yesterday. So if anyone is really dying to get their media onto the Chromecast then that would be another option. Of course, you need a Plexpass membership to get the feature. There's also a smartphone app called Avia that apparently will send network and local media to the Chromecast. I haven't tried either of these yet.
Thats not accomplishing what I want it is just adding some other media player that has NO CLUE what XBMC is playing and manually hunting for the spot I was at which defeats the whole purpose because I could easily just make another HTPC for every TV and do the same thing,
I'm not looking for a way to play media on the TV I can do that already. I'm looking for a way to stream a specific HTPC on ANY TV in the house without having to run an HDMI distribution Amp and Cables all over the house to see what I can see on the screen my current HTPC is attached to.
Chromecast makes it possible. Screen Mirroring is in the pipeline for it already as KitKat has this function in it's AOSP code. Just a matter of getting XBMC to implement this mirroring and transcoding in a format compatible with Chromecast.
That makes it sound easy and I assure you it's not (I'm not suggesting it is easy) Just VERY VERY desirable!
I also support making XBMC mimic a cast Enabled TV. If the Chrome App I mentioned can already do something like this and send content to XBMC then it shouldn't be too hard to find some way to get XBMC to identify itself as a Cast able TV as well. It all happens via Network Announce if I'm not mistaken.
Getting Netflix to support XBMC well thats the hard part! If they were interested there would be an official App for XBMC already!
[EDIT]I should point out that if you can get XBMC to mimic the chromecast as a Castable TV destination you might get your NetFlix to play on XBMC since Netflix supports Chromecast currently!