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0 pointslmedinas9y ago0 comments

But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app"

So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

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VLC has Chromecast support in the development version, and has had it for over a year now. They had to reverse-engineer the protocol. I think the UI is a bit cludgey but it works.

Rexxar9y ago

reverse engineering != porting to an other platform

edit: but is it really open source as said by previous comment or is it just an SDK ?

mcintyre19949y ago

It's closed source. This project uses an open source implementation he wrote himself: https://github.com/insidegui/ChromeCastCore

> This framework implements the Google Cast APIs so they can be used in macOS apps. Google provides an official SDK but it is only for iOS and closed source.

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