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Is there a Chromecast equivalent? (programming.dev)

submitted 18 hours ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'm not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

I've been using macast for the past 5-6 years and I've been looking for a replacement but none seems to pop up. the thing @Ephera@lemmy.ml mentioned looks interesting, might try to recreate.

anyhow, you let it run on your media-PC and you send it stuff from your phone - video urls (not limited to youtube), actual video files, since it's a DLNA sink you can connect jellyfin clients to it, etc. on your phone you need allcast (not on the play store no more, get an archived apk from apkmirror or sumsuch). behind the scenes it uses yt-dlp and mpv to play back the video, full screen if you set it up so.

it mostly works fine, needs the occasional restart when it ran too long and it's not aware of already playing stuff, like if there's jellyfin-media-player already playing something, it would be cool if it would pause it and resume after video.

I feel this should be a functionality of JMP, doesn't seem that hard to implement it.