Just seen /read up on the google chromecast.

 

Nice bit of kit, especially teaming up with unraid and plex.

 

 

just waiting to see when we can purchase it in the UK! (without paying over the odds on ebay!)

 

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast

As I understand it the ChromeCast can only play web based content so it may not be relevant to unRAID users who have their media locally.

indeed it can play locally.  anything you can play on your local browser can be cast to the device.  So it will just be a matter of the devs making their apps compatible with URL calls from the Chromecast.  I don't know how easy, hard, or truly functional that will be for a good local HTPC streamer, but it IS possible by design to play local content.

Plex supports playing from a web browser

 

for example in work i can stream films /tv from my home pc running plex /unraid  over the Internet.

 

At this moment the children are watching wreck it ralph on the laptop via plex on web browser, plex is reading film from unraid

 

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indeed it can play locally.  anything you can play on your local browser can be cast to the device.  So it will just be a matter of the devs making their apps compatible with URL calls from the Chromecast.  I don't know how easy, hard, or truly functional that will be for a good local HTPC streamer, but it IS possible by design to play local content.

Interesting you should say that as it contradicts what I have seen in early reviews.  They said the browser only acted as control, but the media was accessed directly from the ChromeCast and that there was no equivalent to Air Play.  However it is early days yet so I guess everything is largely rumour and subject to change.

I use plexbmc to play my media (for HD Audio) from my plex server and it uses HTTP to retrieve the media from the server. 

indeed it can play locally.  anything you can play on your local browser can be cast to the device.  So it will just be a matter of the devs making their apps compatible with URL calls from the Chromecast.  I don't know how easy, hard, or truly functional that will be for a good local HTPC streamer, but it IS possible by design to play local content.

Interesting you should say that as it contradicts what I have seen in early reviews.  They said the browser only acted as control, but the media was accessed directly from the ChromeCast and that there was no equivalent to Air Play.  However it is early days yet so I guess everything is largely rumour and subject to change.

This is where I saw that it would play local filles.

Not sure I see a whole lot of usefulness with this thing. If I want cheap I'd go with a Raspberry Pi (yes I know this is smaller than a Pi though). Other than that I'd still go with an AppleTV. Requiring a web browser to play anything with this kills it for me. I had thought about picking one up just to try because after the 3 month Netflix credit it would make it cost me only $11 out of pocket. However, Google canceled that Netflix credit deal.

Not sure I see a whole lot of usefulness with this thing. If I want cheap I'd go with a Raspberry Pi (yes I know this is smaller than a Pi though). Other than that I'd still go with an AppleTV. Requiring a web browser to play anything with this kills it for me. I had thought about picking one up just to try because after the 3 month Netflix credit it would make it cost me only $11 out of pocket. However, Google canceled that Netflix credit deal.

More correctly they ran OUT of the promotional packages with Netflix because of the popularity.

Not sure I see a whole lot of usefulness with this thing. If I want cheap I'd go with a Raspberry Pi (yes I know this is smaller than a Pi though). Other than that I'd still go with an AppleTV. Requiring a web browser to play anything with this kills it for me. I had thought about picking one up just to try because after the 3 month Netflix credit it would make it cost me only $11 out of pocket. However, Google canceled that Netflix credit deal.

More correctly they ran OUT of the promotional packages with Netflix because of the popularity.

Rumor has it they had a certain # of Netflix credits and they ran out within ~12 hours of the pre-order going live. Considering it runs a stripped down ChromeOS, I wouldn't doubt some devs start cranking out apps to expand the options. I heard that Plex has announced  they are going to work on a port for it. For about the same price as a RasPi (without promotion), it is more limited but also could be much more plug-and-play.

 

Not sure I see a whole lot of usefulness with this thing. If I want cheap I'd go with a Raspberry Pi (yes I know this is smaller than a Pi though). Other than that I'd still go with an AppleTV. Requiring a web browser to play anything with this kills it for me. I had thought about picking one up just to try because after the 3 month Netflix credit it would make it cost me only $11 out of pocket. However, Google canceled that Netflix credit deal.

More correctly they ran OUT of the promotional packages with Netflix because of the popularity.

 

 

Seems more likely to me it was going to cost them too much money and they ended it for that reason. I'm sure Google wasn't giving Netflix a full $24 per device but I doubt there is any profit margin on this thing to begin with so it was simply going to just cost Google too much money. Will be interesting to see the sales rate these things have without the Netflix credit.

I got mine and the only thing I could get it to work on was YouTube. That worked VERY well though.

 

I'm really hoping Plex will work with it soon.

I think was thinking of getting one for my parents, who have a Netflix account and a tablet/laptop. Not much use to me right now, but for them, it's cheap and easily set up.

I think was thinking of getting one for my parents, who have a Netflix account and a tablet/laptop. Not much use to me right now, but for them, it's cheap and easily set up.

 

 

If you want really cheap, spend the extra $15 bucks and get them a Roku so they don't have to bother with a tablet or laptop just to watch a movie. You can get them for $50 bucks. You can also get refurbished AppleTVs, which also do Netflix, for $75 from the Apple online store.

I didn't know refurbished Apple TV's were going so cheap. Need to look into that. They've already got a tablet and a laptop in the house (I've recently introduced them to technology), so I might go cheaper. But I'll look into whatever of those works best. Thanks for that!

Google Is Crippling Chromecast's Best Feature

http://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643

 

 

Google Is Crippling Chromecast's Best Feature

http://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643

Figures! :'(

Google Is Crippling Chromecast's Best Feature

http://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643

Figures! :'(

 

And in news today it appears this break is just temporary:

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/26/chromecast-update-breaks-local-media-streaming-in-apps/

 

Regards,

 

Stephen

That's good news!

Google Is Crippling Chromecast's Best Feature

http://gizmodo.com/google-is-crippling-chromecasts-best-feature-1200683643

Figures! :'(

 

And in news today it appears this break is just temporary:

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/26/chromecast-update-breaks-local-media-streaming-in-apps/

 

Regards,

 

Stephen

Nice!

Not so much to drag up an old topic. But I just got a chromecast my self and was wondering on whatever came of this. Is there a good app that i can use to stream my videos that i got my on server to my chromecast?

Not so much to drag up an old topic. But I just got a chromecast my self and was wondering on whatever came of this. Is there a good app that i can use to stream my videos that i got my on server to my chromecast?

Plex!

MediaBrowser Server also added Chromecast target support.

I am thinking getting Amazon Fire TV soon, it support Plex and netflix

 

You can even hack it to install XBMC.

Not so much to drag up an old topic. But I just got a chromecast my self and was wondering on whatever came of this. Is there a good app that i can use to stream my videos that i got my on server to my chromecast?

Perhaps a look at Matchstick