[paul4ok]

It would be cool if Kodi could also act as a Chromecast built-in receiver as well as DLNA. This is becoming a standard feature on many AV receivers.

[Klojum]

Chromecast is proprietary software by Google, so you'll probably have to wait for quite some time before anything chromecast comes into the open-source Kodi.

[mwaterbu]

While this is on the sending, rather than receiving end of Chromecast content, this is extremely impressive nonetheless:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/...ree-video/

Please note that Chromecast support in VLC 3.0 is fully open-source for all platforms! That’s the reason why it took us so long to ship as we completely reverse-engineered the entire thing. The closed-source component by Google can’t be used for legal reasons in VLC, isn’t compatible with Macs, Linux and Windows and supports a very limited set of codecs only. With our code, you can play basically anything VLC can decode on your Chromecast (as we transcode on-the-fly if needed).

[Av3nged]

Here is a program written in GO that acts as a cromecast client for YouTube.
https://github.com/CBiX/gotubecast/blob/.../README.md

Maybe someone could convert it to python and create an addon if that is possible?

[mwaterbu]

Kodi actually already supports "casting" Youtube content to a TV running Kodi through Kore, the official remote app.
When on a Youtube page in your mobile browser or the app, if you "share" the video, and select Kore, it will be sent to your connected Kodi instance. This works nicely.
I should add that you need the Youtube addon installed.

[Av3nged]

I am aware of that but the GO program allows you to query and control the stream from the YouTube app on your phone with the added benefit of marking the video as watched on YouTube.

I use the share feature of YouTube via core the only downside is that the recommended videos do not update.

[enen92]

Here is a program written in GO that acts as a cromecast client for YouTube.
https://github.com/CBiX/gotubecast/blob/.../README.md

Maybe someone could convert it to python and create an addon if that is possible?

 Thanks for sharing this project, I was not aware of it and was the required motivation to build something similar for Kodi:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=329153

Cheers

[da-anda]

Kodi already is a DLNA server and client. DLNA is just the marketing name for the UPNP protocol which we support since ages. All you have to do is to enable it in the settings