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Re:The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast... by alexbilbie on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:39AM (#12777217)
It's open source - https://developers.google.com/cast/
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Re:The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast... by lmedinas on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:43AM (#12777227)
But unfortunately is only available for "Android, Chrome or iOS app"

So this means other applications like Firefox, VLC etc... would have to reverse engineer the protocol.

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Re:The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast... by lorenzhs on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:04AM (#12777465)
VLC has Chromecast support in the development version, and has had it for over a year now. They had to reverse-engineer the protocol. I think the UI is a bit cludgey but it works.
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Re:The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast... by Rexxar on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:14AM (#12777309)
reverse engineering != porting to an other platform

edit: but is it really open source as said by previous comment or is it just an SDK ?

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Re:The Unofficial Apple Events App for MacOS with Chromecast... by mcintyre1994 on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:49AM (#12777420)
It's closed source. This project uses an open source implementation he wrote himself: https://github.com/insidegui/ChromeCastCore

> This framework implements the Google Cast APIs so they can be used in macOS apps. Google provides an official SDK but it is only for iOS and closed source.

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