When Google released the Chromecast, a cheap dongle to stream content to a TV, only a handful of apps were listed as compatible by the Chromecast site. Now, the site has been updated and lists many more apps, and also includes a search functionality.
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(Score: 2) by lhsi on Tuesday July 22 2014, @02:34PM
I pretty much ordered a Chromecast once I found out that the iPlayer app supported it. For me, anything else is an added bonus.
It looks like a couple of games are available for it now which will be interesting to follow.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fishybell on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:04PM
I misread the title as "Chromecast Site Now Has Functionality," then I thought about it and realized I had indeed not misread the title.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by morgauxo on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:14PM
I do love my Chromecast. It is very convenient to use compared to say plugging in an hdmi cable. But.. this per-app support sucks. I just want my phone's display to move to the TV and go into tablet mode just like it does with an HDMI cable. Add Wiimote support (as a pointing device, not just buttons) and it would be perfect!
(Score: 2, Informative) by datapharmer on Tuesday July 22 2014, @03:53PM
Heck I'd be happy if it worked at all. The only thing I can get it to play reliably is youtube. Anything I've tried playing via the actual chromecast function in the browser either has no audio, no audio or video, or the video is so jumpy it is completely unwatchable (and usually crashes after a couple minutes if you try to suffer through it). I've tried a few random websites and a couple different computers and 2 different tvs thinking maybe it was just my setup to no avail. Maybe it works on windows but it sure doesn't work on mac or linux.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Tuesday July 22 2014, @04:50PM
Sounds like a codec issue for the ones that play no audio or no audio and video. And the jumpy video would likely be the movie has a higher bitrate than the chromecast can handle. All of these could be solved if someone built a transcoding frameserver that would push to the chromecast. I keep waiting and hoping someone will get around to writing something like this.
(Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Tuesday July 22 2014, @05:02PM
Plex is a local server that will transcode on they fly (provided you have a good CPU) It's nice. I take my android phone into the bedroom with me, open plex, and send the video to my tv. no wires, no special remote. you can browse the web or play a game or whatever on the phone while the video is playing, and only have to switch back to the app when you need to stop/pause/switch the video
(Score: 2) by tynin on Tuesday July 22 2014, @05:08PM
Excellent, I shall investigate that later this afternoon. I'd love to give my chromecasts more usability.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday July 22 2014, @07:03PM
As someone who has been adding Chromecast support to an app, I'm wondering if the Chromecast APIs are a practical joke. Is Google making fun of over-engineered and ridiculously complex APIs by providing an API that is so utterly gonzo complicated that it's hard to understand? I've never seen anything quite like this. It's like they went out of their way to make it as crazy-convoluted as possible for programmers. Chromecast support is slow to appear in apps, and I certainly understand why. There's no way that sending a URL and some metadata to a device a few feet away has to be this complicated. Their sample is thousands and thousands of lines of code, including an insane helper class library with tens of classes. I gave up on trying to understand it and started from scratch. Even though it works, I'm not even sure I understand what my code does.
If you wonder why there's a shortage of programming talent, this kind of thing is why. Anyone can learn a little Python or Java and be a "programmer", but for someone to grok a convoluted API like this requires a lot of experience just to figure out what is going on.
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