That’s how you “Cast” a video from VLC directly to your Chromecast-compatible device. You just get the playlist window with the controls (rather confusingly) on the bottom:

Notice on the source computer that you still have all the controls. Yes, the “Warning” is from the opening titles of Harry In Your Pocket, not some sort of VLC warning! Again, my hopes are that this is one of the obvious things to fix in the next version of VLC.īe that as it may, however, choose your Cast-compatible device - in my case “Family Room TV (M65Q7-H1)” - and that video window will be wirelessly sent to my TV, along with the audio. Does it list them as “Chromecast” or does it prompt “Cast to…” or have anything that would clue in a user that “Renderer” is also “Cast…” or similar? Nope. If you choose “ Renderer” from the Playback menu, it will list the Chromecast capable devices it can find on your local wifi network. To Cast the video to a Chromecast capable device, bring up the “ Playback” menu: But notice along the very top: The Mac version – VLC Media Player – has quite a few menus because it’s really incredibly flexible. The play controls, volume, progress bar, even full window zoom feature are all along the bottom, so it’s pretty darn easy to work with. In this case, it’s the amusing 1973 comedy Harry In Your Pocket starring James Coburn, as shown in the title bar. Here’s VLC on my MacOS 11 system, ready to play a movie: So for now, let me show you how I “Cast” my VLC window to my Vizio TV with built-in Chromecast and then how I use AirPlay on my Mac to also push out the video window onto my AppleTV device… HOW TO CAST A MOVIE FROM VLC WITH CHROMECAST To be fair, there’s a new 4.0 release of VLC coming some time this year – 2021 – that is supposed to introduce a completely new user interface, but whether that makes Casting and AirPlay easier remains to be seen. Having said that, however, the user interface does take a bit of getting used to, and while it supports Chromecast, it’s incredibly non-obvious where that feature is found, to the point that most people have probably long since just accepted that VLC and Casting are just not compatible. Really, one of the best open source apps I use on a daily basis. It also works great on Windows, MacOS, you name it. You’re spot on that I am a big fan of VLC, the open source video player that can handle just about every possible video format on the Internet, along with tons of additional useful features and capabilities.

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