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Comment by jowsie | Hacker News Reader

Does this also allow you to cast arbitrary media to the Chromecast? I couldn't tell from the readme.

I've been using catt (https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt) for years for that purpose. Basically:

    pip3 install catt

And then:

    catt cast <any image/song/video/URL supported by youtube-dl>

https://airflow.app/ is worth mentioning - paid software (sadly Windows/macOS only) but works with everything you throw at it, transcodes unsupported codecs seamlessly and has great UI with remote control via an app.

bubbleupnp is the most customizable and reliable app I have found for streaming/casting.

Plex does

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