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when is the chromecast app going to allow me to just select any video that i view on the internet and click the symbol to stream? I know their big worry is probably pirated movies, but that's not what i want. it's for porn.

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If you just want porn you can cast an entire tab to your ChromeCast and just fullscreen the video. Works fine with sites like Twitch.TV too.

Tabcasting currently only works with PCs, and not with Android. Android support is coming soon though.

Tabcasting also has godawful performance for me on Linux (running on a chromebook pixel no less). I assume the problem is they are doing software encoding of your tab instead of hardware, but I haven't investigated this.

iOS (720p) or OS X (1080p) AirPlay video mirroring is what you're looking for.

Mavericks even lets you use an AirPlay display (read: AppleTV) as a fully independent 1080p monitor, not just a mirror.

Mirroring from another device is not the same as streaming from a TV connected device. It requires active participation from the mirroring device.

Streaming from a TV connected device with arbitrary content restrictions is silly.

Freedom and whatnot.

The freedom to leave the house and to preserve your battery life is another issue. I often fling videos to my chrome cast for my kids remotely. AirPlay style mirroring is wasteful of bandwidth, battery, it double compresses streams, and adds latency.

It's a fallback of last resort IMHO.

The chromecast already let's you directly stream the contents of a chrome tab. He's looking for something less clunky.

Related to AppleTV: I've been using Beamer.app (http://beamer-app.com/) to stream unsupported content to AppleTV. It's a premium product, but it was worth the $15 (or thereabouts).

I humbly suggest that you back AIRTAME on IndieGoGo[0] - the tagline is, "Wireless HDMI for everyone". It allows you to mirror a computer screen, or use it as a second desktop. $89 to back, plus $15 for shipping if you live outside of Denmark. The project is fully funded, so although there are no guarantees given the crowdfunding model, this is a reasonable horse to back.

EDIT: Just want to add that I am not affiliated with this project. I have backed them, so I suppose I have an interest in it being very successful to make it more likely that I will receive a product.

[0]: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-...

I gave up and bought a 30 ft DVI to HDMI cable. Then "DISPLAY=:0.1 mplayer -fs whatever" just works. Cheaper than the Chromecast, too.

Far from ideal, and not exactly what you requested, but instructions to play videos from your phone appear to be here (involves rooting the Chromecast, and having a rootable Chromecast...): http://youtu.be/NTcyBwT2EIU

People have been clamoring for this type of feature ever since the CC and its SDK were announced.

There was a hackathon this weekend for the SDK and people hoped this would finally be when the SDK would be open for everyone but nope :(

Replace your "Chromecast" with any generic USB Linux computer and your wish will be granted.

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