One of our readers said he noticed a slight frame rate drop, but it’s not all that noticeable.
Outside of owning a Chromecast device ( which is sold out everywhere), all you have to do is install the Chromecast extension on your PC, then find the file path of a local video file that you’d like to play, paste that path into the address bar in a Chrome browser, and then press the Chromecast button to cast it on over. When you want to watch the MKV files on your TV, you can learn more about the different methods of how to cast MKV to Chromecast easily from the article. Videostream and Plex take advantage of this, setting up one of your computers to function as a media server the Chromecast streams just the video file from. That means you aren’t stuck with YouTube or Netflix or uploading your current collection to a cloud service – you can grab files already on your computer and then stream them to a TV. If you have an iOS device and Chromecast, the big players all cast just fine (like Netflix) but when it comes to streaming the local content on your device to your Chromecast it’s a bit of a hassle. The Chromecast obviously doesn’t provide any way to plug in a USB drive and play local files, so you’re stuck streaming them over the network. TO a Chromecast, SmartTVs, Roku, Nexus Player, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or Stick, Sony Bravia, Samsung, LG, Panasonic. FROM your phone or tablet, other apps, NAS (DLNA/UPnP or Samba), Google Drive, Google+, Dropbox or a webpage. Things that Ive read online seem to indicate that Plex will allow me to play movies that. Ive downloaded movies onto my tablet but Plex cant seem to find them, it only finds the ones that are on my Macbook.
Next, use the Remote Control of your Television to change the Source. I want to download videos directly to my Android tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro) and then use Plex to cast it to my TV using Chromecast. Plug in the HDMI end of Google Chromecast device into the HDMI port of your Home TV and plug the USB end to the USB power adapter (See image below) 2.
Chromecast can play local video files from your computer to a TV. LocalCast is the number one casting solution on Android with over 10,000,000 users Send videos, music or pictures. Follow the steps below to setup Google Chromecast on your Windows 10 computer. We’re still playing around with the Chromecast, and will have some thoughts on it later, but we wanted to point out a feature that you may not have been aware of after watching yesterday’s demo from Google.