Google announced today the Chromecast.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/
Is a small device that connects to the TV via HDMI and allows the user display and control video content from their smartphone, tablet of desktop computer using Chrome browser.
They released an SDK for developers to integrate other products into Chromecast.
JW6 would be great that fully supported Chromecast.
Here is their SDK
https://developers.google.com/cast/
Yes, this is a very cool device. If someone is using our HTML5 player theoretically it should work when this device is used. I have tested AirPlay mirroring over Apple TV using an iPad, our HTML5 player and mobile safari, and it works. I would expect this to be the same.
I don't believe he is asking for mirroring support since anything in your browser can be displayed.
There is native support which would allow you to essentially send the URL for the video to the chromecast and it will decode and play on the chromcast but you control it from the player. I am not sure if you can do this from javascript alone. But maybe interacting with the browser plugin in chrome could somehow accomplish this.
Seems like that would need to be done with a native app then.
Are there any plans to build this kind of functionality natively into JW player?
Not sure yet.
Came across this earlier. Someone built a basic Chromecast Interaction for a web player. Hope this helps out someone:
https://github.com/colinmutter/chromecast-sandbox
If someone uses this, I would love to see the full integration.
Thanks!
I'd like to see native integration with JW and this. It's not as simple as Airplay I don't think. You need to leverage their API to add integration. Chromecast is actually streaming the video directly from the internet, not from your device.
I think it does mirroring though, similar to AirPlay.
I just hope we can send a jw player page url from iphone to chromecast and chromecast just play the video from that page or some how be able to send jw player m3u8 or rtmp url to chromecast to play it! Do you guys think the above task can be done?
I think it is possible.
Possible sending media page url or actual media url from iphone chrome browser or it need customized jw player app to send urls to chromecast?
Sending the media page url.
Thanks for reply but how we send media page url from iphone?
Wouldn’t you simply load the url then have the Chromecast play it?
Nope, I have a chromecast. It seems there are two ways it works
1. For supported platform (netflix, youtube), once you press chromecast button inside the app, chromecast starts streaming DIRECTLY FROM THE SERVER
2. You can also mirror chrome browser tab to chromecast. This is useful when chromecast does not know how to display the content (e.g. it wouldnt know how to load video from your computer's hard drive). When this is used for internet videos, the stream goes from server -> computer -> TV. This creates problems as same video is traveling over your network twice, your computer has to do the processing and so on)
So a native support would make it awesome.
Ok, thanks for confirming.
