#How cast vlc to chromecast how to#
INFO: Server NGINX RTMP (github.Part 2: How to Cast VLC Video on Android and iPhone to Chromecast TVĪfter you have downloaded your media player, you can cast your media present on your Android. WARNING: You haven't specified an output file (-o filename), using stdout (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team license: GPL It to a video file that you can then try open in VLC (press CTRL+C to stop outputting the stream to the file): rtmpdump -r rtmp://192.168.2.1/live/test > test.flv This should output a bunch of garbage to the console if the stream is running, but if you would like you can also output If you want to verify that your RTMP stream is working, you can either try play directly in VLC, or you can also try to dump the stream to a file using rtmpdump (see the downloads for a binary to download) rtmpdump -r rtmp://192.168.2.1/live/test Change the VLC renderer to use your Chromecast via the menu Playback > Renderer >.You can verify the log of the container using: docker logs nginx-rtmp Run the docker containers as below docker run -d -p 1935:1935 -name nginx-rtmp tiangolo/nginx-rtmp Pull the docker image docker run -d -p 1935:1935 -name nginx-rtmp tiangolo/nginx-rtmp So here are the steps to stream from OBS to Chromecast: Just what I would need, awesome! But then I needed an rtmp server to stream to, and luckily I found someone had createdĪ Docker image which hosts nginx and a module that supports rtmp.
That you can play the stream via VLC, and then render this stream to the Chromecast. I wondered if I could stream from OBS to my Chromecast but it seemed as if it did not support this protocol.Īfter some Googling though, I came across a forum post somewhere (don't seem to be able to find the link) which mentioned Stream but also record videos, and initially I had tried it out before to try record videos to maybe create a trainingĬourse at some point (still an idea for me, but maybe you'll see me create a Pluralsight or Udemy course someday).Īnyway, OBS Studio supports streaming via the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). Most people appear to use OBS Studio to compose video and images and other things in setting up their stream. I thought this was pretty cool and wondered if I could do it myself someday. I've also recently started seeing people do streams of live coding, That he thinks are worth keeping up onto YouTube. I'm a long time viewer of Baumi's DotA videos on YouTube, and he actually runs a Twitch stream and later uploads his videos Though is that if you switch to another app then you're streaming the other app on your desktop and not what you were
You can cast your tab, or cast your entire desktop to the Chromecast, which is also pretty cool! One downside to this
Not all apps support streaming to Chromecast though, so you sometimes need to do other tricks like in Chrome for example I bought myself a Chromecast while staying in Tilburg last year and I really enjoyed being able to finally watch Netflix Often I will watch YouTube or Netflix and would rather watch it on the big screen instead of on my laptop or phone.