Jellyfin on windows, how do I cast to my Chromecast? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 52616e646f6d20557365726e616d65@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

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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

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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? ;)

[-] 52616e646f6d20557365726e616d65@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 52616e646f6d20557365726e616d65@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

No FF is my sole browser, yeah I think you are onto something there. I may have to dl chrome to see if it works in that browser

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

This, OP.

You need to use Chrome in order to Chromecast from your PC.

[-] papabobolious@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

There's surely more tools? I know VLC can output to Chromecast for example

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, yeah, there's other ways. I was just thinking in terms of "casting from the web browser"

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] norambna@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.