How do I stream to Chromecast using VLC?

Building VLC

If you have to build vlc yourself, make sure you have

  • --enable-sout
  • --enable-chromecast

Using VLC

Thus far this feature is not available under the GUI, however you can stream to Chromecast like this,

$ vlc --sout="#chromecast{ip=ip_address}" ./video.mp4

You can watch the video at the same time with

$ vlc --sout="#duplicate{dst=display,#chromecast{ip=ip_address}}" ./video.mp4

To make matters even better, you can actually add a delay on the video so it better syncs with the audio (sets the delay to 3100ms).

$ vlc --sout="#duplicate{dst=display{delay=3100},#chromecast{ip=ip_address}}" ./video.mp4

You can find the list of options support to chromecast here, they currently include

  • ip
  • port
  • http-port
  • mux
  • mime
  • video

I was unhappy w/ VLC's casting support, so I wrote a dedicated linux GUI for casting a video file. Might be of use to you, assuming your underlying goal is casting a file, not specifically with VLC.

https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast

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There's a post on how to use it via GUI now: http://www.howtogeek.com/269272/how-to-stream-from-vlc-to-your-chromecast/

Basically:

Video > Renderer > Scan
Video > Renderer > "Chromecast"
Play media with VLC!

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