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colemickens on Aug 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome

There are alternative clients, it's the receiver side that is locked down.

For example: https://github.com/xat/castnow

kelnos on Aug 31, 2016 [–]

Never got it to work with anything, video, audio, images. The ChromeCast screen changes as if it's loading something, but it just sits there forever and nothing plays.

lokapian on Aug 31, 2016 | [–]

firewall maybe?

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