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Questions related to the Google Cast screen-sharing technology. Includes questions about creating a Receiver (a HTML5/JS/CSS3) app that runs on the Chromecast device, and about creating a Sender on their Chrome browser and / or iOS and Android devices.

Google Cast is a technology suite that brings TV's into the multi-screen era. In simpler words, Google Cast is a screen-sharing technology that lets a user send and control content like video from a small computing device like a phone, tablet, or laptop to a large display device like a television.

Developers will need to create a Receiver (a HTML5/JS/CSS3) app that runs on the Chromecast device. They also must create a Sender on their Chrome browser and / or iOS and Android devices.

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How to add standard media controls to Google Cast app?

I'm developing Google Cast custom receiver app using WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io, https://github.com/feross/webtorrent) and Google Cast sender app using JavaScript (Chrome) SDK. The idea of my app is sending torrent id (magnet URI like…
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iOS Sdk Google Chromecast Subtitles

This is how I have implemented to show subtitles using a Google Chromecast device. But the subtitle doesnt appear. Do I have to make changes in Chromecast API ? var subtitleName:String = "" var subtitleLink:String = "" var subtitleType:String =…
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How to automatically chrome-cast a website or a tab

Is there a way to automatically google cast a chrome tab or a specific website everytime I visit the website URL ? Any command or function or script or bat file ?
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chromecast loading the older version of my receiver app

When I launch my receiver app on the chromecast device, it goes to the URL where my html is hosted to retrieve the receiver app to launch it. However, when I update the contents of the HTML and JS sources on the hosted server and close the app on…
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Why does the chromecast client declare its height and width as 720p to the receiver app?

Why does the chromecast declare its client height and width to be 720p to the receiver app server? I am trying to display non-video content and assumed I would be able to use the full 1080p resolution. The device reports to the TV that it is in…
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Open Chromecast YouTube video from my Android app

I'm able to use my own whitelisted url for feeding my chromecast videos, but can I make it stream a YouTube video directly from my app? I assume all I would need is to launch the YouTube app remotely and feed it a video ID somehow, but I can't find…
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skipPrevious and skipNext buttons inactive even with items in queue Google Cast iOS Sender SDK v4.3.5 and above

I have an iOS sender application for video streaming that supports queueing and using the skipPrevious and skipNext buttons to skip forward and backward between videos in the queue. The app works with the google cast sdk v4.3.3 and v4.3.4 but I need…
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Style the text color in the "Currently playing" cast screen

I cannot find a way to keep my application style below and display the text in the "Currently playing" popup screen. It's white on white as you can see in the following picture. It seems textColor is used for the text and colorPrimary for the…
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Chromecast v3: Mini Controller showing progressbar instead of Play/Pause button

I am using below way to integrate mini_controller in my chromecast app. However, I always seeing progressbar instead of pause/play button in mini controller.
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Failed to resolve: com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:9.8.00

I'm using Android Studio and have cloned the CastVideo v2 reference app and set it up with the CastCompanionLibrary as per its instructions. However, when I try to sync the gradle project, it says: Failed to resolve:…
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Troubleshooting Styled Media Receiver css

I'm trying to implement styled media receiver, but for some reason, my chromecast won't show the graphics. I get only name of my receiver on black background. Preview in cast dev console looks OK though. The css I'm trying to use is this:…
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How to cast a webpage to chromecast

I have a webpage with self-updating news and weather information. Is there an example page that is able to cast it's URL to chromecast? The browser tab casting from within Chrome can stream the content to the TV just fine, but I want to be able…
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Google-cast: Unable to white list app. Missing option for "Send this Chromecast's serial number when checking for updates"

This is a screenshot from my Mac's Chromecast app. As you can see the options to tick the "Send this Chromecast's serial number when checking for updates" is missing. I have another Chromecast device on the same wifi network and for that device the…
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Chromecast Sender App Doesn't Detect Disconnection/Reconnection

I previously developed an android sender app with the preview SDK and found that when a Chromecast was turned on or off, the app very quickly discovered this and changed the state of the media route button. However with the new SDK, if a Chromecast…
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Chromecast SDK with m3u8 urls

I have setup the example webserver that comes with the SDK (https://github.com/googlecast/), and it works will the example media file they provide. When I try it with an example m3u8 file it fails…
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