videocast

videocast

For Chromecast owners: stream a local video to your Chromecast from command-line. Controls (volume, seek, pause...) are read from your terminal, and video is hosted and converted on the fly so you don't have to worry about anything!

Requirements

• Node
• ffmpeg

Installation

npm install -g videocast

Usage

cast /path/to/file

Controls

• Up/Down: increase/decrease volume
• Left/Right: seek -/+ 30 seconds (seems not to be working)
• Space: pause/resume
• Ctrl+C: stop and quit

This is a work in progress!

What's working

• Converting and casting to local first Chromecast found (conversion is not a gadget, tested on lots of files, without conversion many have no sound)
• Controls on a Linux terminal

What's planned

• Find out why 'seek' is not working
• Check other platforms (different key codes? crappy encodings? who knows...)
• CLI options (start time, ffmpeg output)
• Remove dependency to ffmpeg (if possible)
• Why not making a fully working TTY player interface?

Want to contribute?

Don't hesitate to fork and propose pull requests! When project is cloned, best way to test is using debug:

npm install
DEBUG=* ./bin/cast.js /path/to/file