The Glade 4.0

You can stream local content

So, this isn't officially a streaming device, but Google didn't intend for Glass to be used for POV porn movies, either. This should make it a must-buy for anyone without a smart TV or media box of some kind.

Chromecast has had one of the most exciting releases a dongle has ever had. People are going 50 miles from their homes to buy it and it really does have the potential to be one of the most useful things you may ever plug into your television. If you don’t know what Chromecast is or what it can do, our own Josh Vergara has a review of the Chromecast for you to watch. It’s well known that the device can stream whatever is happening in a Chrome browser straight to your TV. Did you know that it can also do the entire desktop screen?

Over at Droid-Life they took a look at an experimental feature that shares not just what’s happening in Chrome, but the entire desktop screen. This mirroring feature is, as mentioned, experimental, but they seem to be reporting that it’s working rather well. Want to give it a shot? Here’s how you can do it.

Step 1 – You must first own a Chromecast.
Step 2 – Set up your Chromecast as you normally would.
Step 3 – Install the Chromecast extension for Chrome.
Step 4 – Open the Chromecast extension for Chrome. Then click the drop down arrow.
Step 5 – Select the “Cast entire screen (experimental)” option.
Step 6 – …
Step 7 – Profit!
Chromecast full screen
- See more at: http://www.androidauthority.com/chromec ... IYIT6.dpuf

I’ve been thinking about it all night, and I don’t think I’ve ever been as surprised by a device as I am by the Chromecast.

A Chromecast app that allowed users to feed local files from a mobile device directly to the Chromecast has been disabled with the most recent software update for the device. The developer of the app, Koushik Dutta, stated that his AirCast used code that had been hanging around in the Chromecast software for a while, but some new lines that Google inserted “short circuit everything but mirroring,” preventing apps that would circumvent Google-approved apps.

Per Dutta’s Google+ posts, the Chromecast extension app contains “video_playback” and “slideshow” cases that would allow the Chromecast to handle local files. Dutta reverse engineered the protocol and developed AirCast to take advantage of these capabilities and demoed the results in a video.

The latest Chromecast update now breaks that functionality with a few new lines:


This code prevents “the ability to play media from external sources,” Dutta said.

It is still possible to play local files from the Chrome browser on the desktop by dragging them into a tab and streaming the tab to the Chromecast. That still leaves local files on mobile devices stuck without transfer to a PC. Dutta said that one of the sample Chromecast apps initially demonstrated mobile playback functionality, suggesting that the Chromecast was as capable of a streaming device as any “full fledged mobile computer.”

Google has not offered any public comment on why the video playback and slideshow cases were disabled, and the company did not respond immediately to requests for comment. We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.

Update: Google has provided the following statement:

Picked up mine today Seems to work just fine.

Fine enough to cancel my Xbox live account for now.

Unfortunately, since I run a 3 monitor setup, I can't cast my main screen only to the TV. Ah well. That would have been fun.

you still need a netflix account. All chromecast does is allow you to redirect a netflix stream from a computer or mobile device to the chromecast connected to your TV/Monitor.

If you are using a 360 with a live gold account just to watch netflix, then you can probably save the money on live gold, but you still need Netflix (or Hulu). You can also use it to watch youtube videos.

Yea, thats the situation Im in. Only reason I have kept my 360 gold account running was so I could watch netflix on the TV in my living room.

I can see how my original statement might be seen as confusing XD

PLEX support is here, friends.

http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ne ... idays.html