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I installed the latest Plex Player for Windows and it has a cast icon (upper right corner of the screen) but it just says No Players Found. Using a Chrome browser, the Plex Web Player can cast to my Chromecast TV just fine, but this new desktop app can’t even see the TV. I’m on a gig wired LAN, btw.
Assuming this feature isn’t simply borked, will this desktop player ever be able to cast to my TV? My phone can, my laptop can, my tablets can, even my cheesy Kindle device can cast to my TV, but my uber PC only can with the Chrome browser, not this fancy new desktop app. Since the web version apparently works better, I do I just need to stick with that?
If it helps, my system: Windows 10 Pro, Ryzen 3800X 3.9GHz, 64GB DDR4-3600, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 1TB Samsung 870 M.2 SSD (apps), Seagate Exos 16TB HDD (media)
Yes it can be done in Edge 1st Go to Edge settings the 3 … open and select (More Tools) 2nd select Cast Media To Device 3rd select your device, this will mirror your screen and send the audio to the device at that point you can select full screen on your video and enjoy. the key is you have to mirror the entire screen. Make sure devices are on the same wifi network. I checked my cast icon and when selected it shows all available devices on my network.
But Edge is not Chrome, so “Chromecast API only allows from iOS, Android and Chrome” isn’t true. Chromecast is not dependent on Chromium, else my Opera browser would be able to cast as well, and it can’t. And if the API were limited to only iOS, Android, and Chrome, then please explain why VLC casts to my Chromecast TV just fine.
Even accessing my Plex media from a tab in my Chrome browser, Plex has only ever partially worked. For example, while casting Plex content, my Chromecast TV’s native Play/Pause button can pause content, but it can’t resume playing; instead, I need to hoof it over to my PC and whack the spacebar. And before you say there’s something wrong with my TV’s remote like another Plex employee once did, the remote works just fine with VLC. So if VideoLAN can do it, why can’t Plex?
All that aside, VLC is a standalone Windows application which works fine with my Chromecast TV. Plex Player for Windows is likewise a Windows application which has zero Chromecast functionality. So, extending my original question: will Plex ever have functional Chromecast capability like VLC enjoys? If Plex isn’t capable of implementing this functionality, I would appreciate someone just saying so and not blaming others’ software, Google’s API, etc.; I’d be fine with that, really, since honesty and openness is more important to me.
When mirroring to device the cast device is the controller of the content however i’m curious as to why you don’t have the plex app on your tv and use it from there?
Simple: I have a Chromecast TV, not a smart TV. It’s a Toshiba 55L621U with built-in Chromecast 4K Ultra, and that’s about as smart as my TV gets.
FWIW, I can’t cast Disney+ to my TV, either, since they only support the latest version of Chromecast and Toshiba hasn’t seen fit to update mine in a couple years…sadly typical.
BTW PDIM, my client doesn’t recognize my Chromecast TV at all.
It recognizes my Chrome browser but neither my TV nor Edge or Opera which are both Chrome-based. I’m fine with using Chrome (except when some random feature gets borked now and then, haha), but I’d expect the desktop client to work better than that.
The question remains: Why can the Chrome browser see my TV just fine, but the Plex desktop client can’t?
Other browsers that may be originally based on chrome probably don’t work because the makers of those browsers unintentionally or intentionally made changes so it doesn’t
