I think there's no Cast extension for other desktop browsers beyond Chrom...

Julian Bond - 2015-02-15 08:19:29+0000 - Updated: 2015-02-15 08:19:29+0000

I think there's no Cast extension for other desktop browsers beyond Chrome. Could there be?

So while I can obviously watch Youtube or play music in GPM in an HTML5 browser like firefox, I can't then Cast the output.

I don't expect Google to do this as they no longer seem to support anything much outside their eco-system. But could anyone else do this? Is a Firefox/Safari/IE/Opera extension to support Cast completely impossible or just unlikely?

David Wright - 2015-02-15 10:46:07+0000

You could always cast your entire PC screen - beta only so might not be perfect - http://allaboutchromecast.com/chromecast-how-to-guide/how-to-use-chromecast-to-share-desktop-screen-and-audio-to-tv/

Alessandro Martellucci - 2015-02-15 11:01:40+0000

Or you can use Firefox Mobile version to cast your web content

Julian Bond - 2015-02-15 12:27:33+0000

+Alessandro Martellucci Firefox mobile on Android is using the Android Cast SDK I think. The problem on desktop is that there's no generic Cast SDK. What's available is tied into the Chrome extension.

+David Wright So you've got to run Chrome as well so you can use the Chrome extension to copy the whole screen across instead of having Youtube or GPM decoded in the Chromecast.

I don't know how VLC is going to do this in VLC 3. Maybe they've reverse engineered the protocol. Or maybe they're doing something else.

Alessandro Martellucci - 2015-02-15 13:14:49+0000

Yep! Only iOS, Android and Chrome SDK.