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The new cast feature in recent builds of chromium is not working for me. It fails to find any devices. Looking at the debug output it says: "media router not defined."

After a bit of googling I found you can revert back to using the old cast extension by following these instructions: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6349849?hl=en

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Thank you! I don't know if this was up the last time I looked.

There are flags to gate the feature in the source-- looks like the iOS build excludes it. Going to leave a build running overnight and give it a look in the morning. If tearing it out works, I'll post a patch to the Debian bug report.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833477

Disabling media router from source is apparently more involved than I thought it would be. Could have changed the default setting in a new user profile, but disabling it with a command-line argument is probably more like what I'm looking for here.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833477#44

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