You’ll start by clicking the remote control icon you’ve come to know and love.
Upon doing so, the Chromecast extension will appear and allow you to select the Chromecast receiver you’d like to cast to.
Once the connection is established, you’ll see the player icon light up in the top right-hand corner.
In addition, you’ll see a friendly welcome screen on your TV:
Now you can send content to Chromecast just like you would any other device. Let’s go through some examples of that. Let’s play a movie. First, we’re going to go back and enable the optional mirror mode function, so that everyone in the room can see the the movie information before starting playback.
Now let’s go view The Avengers in the browser. Voila, it also shows up on the TV. Wait, is this Media Browser Theater? No, it’s Chromecast!
Now click play in the browser, and you’ll be treated to a wonderful interface on-screen to control the content:
Music looks great too:
Subtitles (Look, no transcoding!)
Our subtitle text delivery system that you’ve seen in other clients is also featured in Chromecast. We do everything possible to avoid transcoding, and text-based delivery of subtitles via WebVTT is one of many techniques we use to make playback as efficient as possible.
Supports Intros
If you use the Intros plugin, this is now supported bringing the cinema experience to Chromecast.
Supports Channels & Live TV
Title says it all. Now you can stream online content and the evening news directly to Chromecast!
What other ways can I play?
You can do everything the web client can do.
Play a full Season or Series – Play, Shuffle
Albums – Play, Queue, Shuffle, Instant Mix, Play all from Here, Queue all from Here
Songs – Play, Queue, Shuffle, Instant Mix, Play all from Here, Queue all from Here
Music Genres – Play, Shuffle, Instant Mix, Queue
Music Artists – Play, Shuffle, Instant Mix, Queue
Playlists – Play, Shuffle, Play all from Here, Queue all from Here, Queue
Expect our Chromecast features to continue to evolve in the coming weeks. Tells us how you use it and help shape the direction in which we take it. Enjoy!
Looking for New Contributors
Would you like to help with our future Chromecast development? We are looking for skilled html5/javascript developers. We are also looking for Java/Android developers for some other upcoming projects. Get in touch!