Jellyfin on windows, how do I cast to my Chromecast?
Jellyfin on windows, how do I cast to my Chromecast?
As the title says really. I am using Jellyfin on a windows laptop and Firefox as my default browser.
When I try to get my media to stream to my chromecast dongle it keeps showing as Google cast unsupported. I know there is no problem with the laptop or the dongle, as using plex I am able to stream fine. I don't seem to be able to find any info online how to do this, can someone help clear this up for me please
I am not streaming via Windows so maybe this is not correct, but isn't Chromecast like that only working via Chrome? Unless something changed in the last years and Firefox is now also able to.
Interesting username by the way, or did you mixup username and password fields? ;)
I can stream natively with the Plex web app so I thought that jellfin would be able to do the same.
Haha no mixup. It's just hex data
Huh, interesting. You only have firefox on your system so Plex would only open the web app via firefox too? Just ruling out you accidentally use chrome via Plex which would explain this.
Alternatively if you don't have chrome and just want to try if casting from Jellyfin works at all you could connect via chrome to test it.
I'm pretty sure Firefox doesn't know how to cast, that's a chrome feature.
Secondly, a chromecast dongle can either be targetted locally by an app (such as chrome) or over the internet via https.
If you are just hosting on your windows laptop, you probably don't have a domain with TLS, yes?
From localhost (the laptop itself), if you run chrome, you can probably cast to your dongle whilst on the same LAN.If you have one of the newer Chromecasts with the remote, you can simply install the Jellyfin app on it directly, and address your Jellyfin install by IP and port.
Plex uses some fancy redirection work around these limitations, but it relies on an external service that they provide.
Easiest solution, use the Jellyfin client on your phone and use that to stream to your Chromecast.
If you want to use just your PC, then you need to be able to access your Jellyfin over HTTPS. Search a bit and you'll find tutorials for this, but you'll have some work ahead of you. Doing all this through your smartphone is much easier.
That may be the option I have to take then if it is that involved to set it up
Fair enough