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Until VLC finally rolls out its native Chromecast support in desktop builds this remains one of the easiest ways (if not the only way) to cast video from Ubuntu to Chromecast.How to Turn On/Off Closed Subtitles on Netflix Apple TV, Roku. You can even cast YouTube Videos too - but be aware that this will download the YouTube video to your computer and then cast the local file to your TV: mkchromecast -y -video If you want to cast a video file available from an online source you can do use the -source-url flag: mkchromecast -source-url -c mp4 -volume -video

Want to cast video with subtitles? No problem pass -subtitles flag and point the app to a matching .srt file: mkchromecast -video -i "~/Videos/Example.mkv" -subtitles ~/Videos/Example.srt You can specify a specific backend to process the video file (should you need to): mkchromecast -video -i "/path/to/file.mp4" -encoder-backend ffmpeg

To cast video from Ubuntu to your Chromecast you just need to pop open a new Terminal window and run: mkchromecast -video -i "/path/to/file.mp4" The good news is that it’s deliciously straight forward to use.įirst: make sure you have paired your Chromecast with Mkchromecast using the Mkchromecast tray applet, but make sure to quit the tray applet before trying to cast video or you’ll get conflicts, and things may screw up. Now for the ‘drawback’ bit: video cast support is a CLI feature. Mkchromecast 0.3.7 adds video cast support meaning that you can finally cast videos from your computer to a nearby TV. Video casting works both with node and ffmpeg backends. If you plan on also casting audio streams from desktop apps you will need to install pavucontrol.īuilds for macOS are available from the project Github page. This ensures all of the dependencies (and there are a few) are installed at the same time, including python-pychromecast, the core library that powers this app. Install Mkchromecast through Ubuntu Software. In general, for most users, the catch-all installer linked below should work just fine. The one you choose to use depends entirely on your set-up. There are multiple versions of Mkchromecast available for Ubuntu.