You say this has nothing to do with Chromecast and then describe the #1 use-case for casting, to play movies that sit on your device (phone, laptop) on your TV.
Jellyfin, based on their website, looks like just another media server.
Jellyfin, based on their website, looks like just another media server.
Is it really, though? I've used "casting" many times, and it was always to cast something that was "on the cloud", never something that was on my phone, to my TV. For example, it's a lot easier to find a specific YouTube video with my phone than with my TV remote.
> Streaming online content by passing a URL to the server.
I like what they've done, but Google has really locked this down unfortunately.
That's still the niche that chromecast fills better than anything else at a price point that means you can buy one for every tv and monitor in your house for the cost of a more fully featured device with storage on one or two tvs.
Sadly google seems to hate the chromecast and even their own software gets worse at casting to it every year.
Yeah, I've always been amazed at how unreliable and broken the Chromecast software seems to be (for me, at least). I feel like Google really missed an opportunity here.
If this hadn't been the case, I personally would have purchased more of them and, importantly, recommended them to many people. But, after a couple tries (gen. 1 and gen. 2), I gave up.