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Request: add Google-Cast (ChromeCast) emulator for the PC #411

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I wish to have an emulator of ChromeCast for the PC, that will function exactly 
as ChromeCast .

Reasons:

1. Not all of us have ChromeCast or can even buy it.

2. As an Android developer who wanted to develop an app that uses ChromeCast 
API, it's quite annoying to have PC, smartphone, TV, and a dongle next to us, 
and look at 3 screens all the time.

3. It could be much easier to debug when looking on the PC

4. It might even be useful for end users to watch videos casted to the PC, and 
some might even do it by connecting the laptop to the TV (plus some TVs don't 
have USB/HDMI) . 

I've tried finding such a thing, but none of the apps I've found worked well 
(or at all) : 
1. "CR Cast" plugin for chrome - only YouTube casting worked.
2. Leapcast - python based app, which for some reason I've failed to compile, 
plus it's based on deprecated methods.
3. If you have another device, "CheapCast" was also a nice solution, but it's 
not developed anymore.

It could also be nice to have an app for Android that operates as a ChromeCast 
dongle.
I think that such an emulator should support both the Cast-SDK and 
"RemotePlaybackClient" , so that we could cast to ChromeCast even without 
having the google-play-services.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lblb...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2014 at 11:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes,That would be awesome.

Original comment by ashraful...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2014 at 6:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes

Original comment by 17.cha...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2014 at 6:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
A Receiver API for Windows, or even simply being able to apply to partner with 
Google and get the necessary private key/certificate, would open up third party 
applications to provide this sort of functionality. It would be great to have 
GoogleCast become a real broadly usable standard for mirroring functioning, as 
an open alternative to Airplay.

Original comment by james.ni...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2014 at 12:44