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Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by sandGorgon on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:22AM (#13381961)
there is http://getvideostream.com which does playback of local videos on chromecast through a chrome plugin. works brilliantly.
Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by alex_dev on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:11PM (#13386149)
I've been using this chrome app for many months and enjoy using it immensely. I do not need the bells and whistles of Plex. Furthermore, every time I attempted to stream a movie from Plex, chromecast had buffering issues.
Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by michaelmior on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:32AM (#13382433)
Awesome! Thanks for the pointer. I ended up hacking together a few scripts to do the same since I don't want to run a full-blown media centre, but this look much easier.
Re:Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your o... by sandGorgon on Thursday January 12, 2017 @12:00PM (#13383890)
the developers are really cool people. The support happens at /r/videostream

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