Gnomecast
Creative
video casting
SHOW HN2018
176points
62comments
#215of 2,155 in 2018
Top 10%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Execution: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works well where VLC 3.0 Chromecast support does not
From 3 comments
This works great, thank you. Maybe I can stop dropping video files on a Chrome browser tab. Why does this work so easily but the new VLC still doesn't find my chromecast?
BugsJustFindMe on HNI understand why it took so long, but the implementation in VLC3.0 doesn't work for me. It never finds my Chromecast and I have no idea why. This app seems so far to work…
BugsJustFindMe on HNThe new VLC never finds my chromecast, and this does right away. Apparently a lot of people are having nonspecific trouble with the new VLC feature.
BugsJustFindMe on HN
Useful GUI and usability
From 1 comment
The legwork on usability is what makes code into software. That GUI matters.
BugsJustFindMe on HN
Objections
VLC 3.0 Chromecast casting is buggy and lacks subtitles
From 2 comments
Supposed to but doesn't, and I don't know why since this works great.
BugsJustFindMe on HNYeah, there is no subtitles support for now. It will be supported in the next release.
thresh on HN
Requests
Support casting audio files to Chromecast Audio
From 2 comments
I am looking forward to trying it when I get home, does it support casting audio (eg. an mp3, flac, etc.) to a Chromecast Audio?
blacksmith_tb on HNThere was already an issue in GH, but I added a little more detail to it. Thanks for a very cool project!
blacksmith_tb on HN
Native Windows or PyQt frontend
From 2 comments
This is written in python. Anyone able to get this running under msys with gtk3, etc
skanga on HNI really like that somebody has written in in Python. There is one similar tool which was written in NodeJS, I couldn't get that to work. One question - Is the back-end modular…
rajaravivarma_r on HN
Questions
Can it cast a portion of the screen or a web dashboard
From 1 comment
Can you cast a portion of your screen with this? What I'd love to do is cast a website which I can use as a "dashboard" with custom content
juancampa on HN
Alternatives named
VLC 3.0
From 2 comments
This works great, thank you. Maybe I can stop dropping video files on a Chrome browser tab. Why does this work so easily but the new VLC still doesn't find my chromecast?
BugsJustFindMe on HNVLC 3.0 was released last week and has Chromecast support. It's been in the beta channel for a long time, but apparently took a lot of work to get edge cases sorted etc.
lorenzhs on HN
catt
From 1 comment
There's also this python based cli caster https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
atomi on HN
Plex
From 1 comment
Plex works on Linux/windows/OS X and does transcoding and subtitles, but I don’t know if it can directly cast from the PC or if you have to also run a client on your phone to…
rblatz on HN
getvideostream
From 1 comment
This is great! I personally have been using https://getvideostream.com/ which I like, but awesome to see an open source alternative.
brettlangdon on HN