Share your feedback in the comments section. Most of the apps are provided with cast icon to send your media files to your Chromecast connected TV screen. Google Chromecast supports number of video player apps which includes many third party apps also.

The above listed are few Chromecast supported video players. Video players are the most essential tool to play and watch all your media files on your device. Read how to Change Chromecast Screensaver? To Conclude You are allowed to search your favorite movies and TV shows from internet and allows instant access to recently added and recently played videos. Audio boost and 3D support to watch 3D movies on your TV screen with better audio quality. It allows you to download and integrated subtitles to videos. It comes with hardware accelerated video decoding feature with multi audio support. There does not seem to be an obvious way to do that but it lets people install VLC which, of course does not find anything, How do I load media files onto the Chromecast with Google TV If there is anything to do so that they are visible to the installed VLC, that would be good to know too. While I did all this, I was casting Prime Video to the Chromecast from the app on my mobile phone.Archos Video Player is the one of the popular media player supported by Chromecast to play video and audio on your TV screen.

Removed all of them, did nothing else, just went back to vlc, and - voila - there it was again! Right away, without having to wait for vlc to scan. I had three entries, named after the room, I used when I set up the Chromecast. Just casted something from vlc, and it hasn't appeared on the list of ' Other devices' again. So I didn't have to add it again, as yalhinnawi says, he has done. Open Windows Settings > Devices/Bluetooth & other devices > scroll down to the list of ' Other devices' and remove every entry, resembling the Chromecast name.

With minor changes in proceedings, I did the following: Stumbled over this thread from Google Search and took a look at the last post from yalhinnawi (image was gone, but tried the ulr with it - and my Kaspersky went wild!), so I had an idea, where he was at. But with vlc it didn't work, in 'renderer' there was only the 'local' option, it was scanning and it was greyed out. I have been able to cast to Chromecast from vlc for months (after having tried for months before, without success, as soon as the first v.3 came, but suddenly it worked), but after some major changes in my network setup, I wanted to cast from vlc again.

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