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There is one similar tool which was written in NodeJS, I couldn't get that to work. One question - Is the back-end modular…",{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"16392852","yes. the whole thing's only like 500 lines of code. literally wrote it in about 2 evenings after work. should be easy to port to pyqt.","open_source","unknown",{"praise":76,"objections":97,"requests":108,"questions":127,"alternatives":135},[77,91],{"value":78,"source":79,"evidence":80},"Works well where VLC 3.0 Chromecast support does not","commenter",[81,85,88],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"16388957","BugsJustFindMe","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?",{"id":86,"by":83,"text":87},"16393428","I 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…",{"id":89,"by":83,"text":90},"16393450","The 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.",{"value":92,"source":79,"evidence":93},"Useful GUI and usability",[94],{"id":95,"by":83,"text":96},"16389600","The legwork on usability is what makes code into software. That GUI matters.",[98],{"value":99,"source":79,"evidence":100},"VLC 3.0 Chromecast casting is buggy and lacks subtitles",[101,104],{"id":102,"by":83,"text":103},"16393395","Supposed to but doesn't, and I don't know why since this works great.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"16391557","thresh","Yeah, there is no subtitles support for now. 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What I'd love to do is cast a website which I can use as a \"dashboard\" with custom content",[136,144,151,158],{"value":137,"source":79,"evidence":138},"VLC 3.0",[139,140],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"16391810","lorenzhs","VLC 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.",{"value":145,"source":79,"evidence":146},"catt",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"16392908","atomi","There's also this python based cli caster https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fskorokithakis\u002Fcatt",{"value":152,"source":79,"evidence":153},"Plex",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"16390670","rblatz","Plex works on Linux\u002Fwindows\u002FOS 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…",{"value":159,"source":79,"evidence":160},"getvideostream",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"16390693","brettlangdon","This is great! 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