Write a Chromecast App in 3 Easy Steps

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I wonder if this 2015 method still works. Last week I upgraded my wifi network and could not use google home to connect to my older chromecast. Before that casting was getting to be hit or miss. I don't know what happened when we first started it worked so well.

How is this stuff hit or miss? How did this ship?

I've been able to stream mpegts to ffplay for years and it more or less just works.

A device that costs $35 doesn't work as well after 6 years and we complain. Meanwhile my $600 Pixel from 3 years ago has stopped getting updates, but that's normal?

Both of those are awful and it’s the same problem: They’re incompatible with community maintained software.

The manufacturer has to support all the software on them which is an insane model if you’ve ever looked generally in the direction of stuff hardware manufacturers have written.

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