CastBuddy

#3.63 / 604 rate

CastBuddy

70,000 users

2019-02-09

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Extension Information

5 star
48%
4 star
10%
3 star
8%
2 star
8%
1 star
25%

Supported Languages

Permissions

Optional Permissions

Description

This extension finds videos on the web sites you are browsing and allows you to play them on your Chromecast device.

Stream web videos directly on your Chromecast from websites which have not added Chromecast support yet.

This extension finds videos on the web sites you are browsing and allows you to play them on your Chromecast device.

When it finds Chromecast comptible videos ( .webm, .mp4, .mkv etc), count of videos is shown over extension's menubar icon, which you can click to Select a video and extension will send it to your Chromecast device. Once a casting session is established, you can control video playback from Extension's popup page.

Instructions for using CastBuddy: https://castbuddy-extension.bitbucket.io/help/index.html

Features:
* Find compatible videos and allows you to stream directly on your Chromecast
* Control playback ( Play/Pause/Seek) from extension's menu
* No need to keep your computer running once streaming starts on Chromecast
* Allows you to manually enter a URL for Video to play on your Chromecast
* Support for adding videos to Queue

v1.0.8
- Experimenting with external website based player

v1.0.6
Launch player in a new window to workaround issue with latest chrome update which doesn't allow starting chromecast sessions from popup.

v1.0.5
- Revert changes made in 1.0.4 as the didn't work properly and also broke functionality that was working with older chrome version

v1.0.4
- Attempt to fix issue with latest chrome update

Reviews

José
José

De lo mejor que hay en el Store normal que Google le quiera eliminar...

Luis Mendez
Luis Mendez

Doesn't stream for me. It detects the video link (m3u8) It detects the device I want to cast to (Nest Hub) It initializes the video but the screen stays black and busy but never plays. I guess I'm stuck using Web Video Caster for android to stream my links. meh!

Miklós Kaboldy
Miklós Kaboldy

Does not work for me.

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