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Re:Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV fr... by heavyset_go on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:12PM (#30367718)
How does this differ from, say, catt[1]?

[1] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt

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Re:Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV fr... by marcolucidi on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:19AM (#30370708)
i learned about catt in this thread and i never used it, so i may be wrong about something, but these should be the main differences:

- they use a different protocol for device discovery, catt uses mDNS, ytcast uses DIAL.

- catt requires a chromecast to work, ytcast should work with any DIAL enabled device that supports the YouTube on TV app.

- catt can cast from many sources including local files, ytcast merely "tells" the YouTube on TV app to play videos, so it's limited to YouTube.

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Re:Show HN: ytcast – cast YouTube videos to your smart TV fr... by heavyset_go on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:44PM (#30379726)
Cool, thanks for the explanation. I'll give your project a spin.
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